Texas, flood and Camp Mystic
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Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the at least 120 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.
A Texas woman with ties to Camp Mystic, which saw the deaths of at least 27 campers and counselors from the devastating July 4 floods, recalled her ordeal of being surrounded by water and surviving the deadly disaster.
The “Bubble Inn” bunkhouse hosted the youngest kids at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp caught in the deadly July 4 flooding in the state’s Hill Country.
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Taaffe called the counselors at Camp Mystic “heroes” and wore a tie to honor them and the young girls who died during the Central Texas flood.
When Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls nestled in Texas Hill Country, experienced catastrophic flooding on July 4, Executive Director Richard “Dick” Eastland worked as quickly as he could to get his campers to safety.
Many of the 650 campers and staffers at Camp Mystic were asleep when, at 1:14 a.m., a flash-flood warning for Kerr County, Texas, with “catastrophic” potential for loss of life was issued by the National Weather Service.