Texas, Camp Mystic and floods
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Amid chaos from the flood, campers huddled with young counselors—many unaware of the devastation just yards away.
Records released Tuesday show Camp Mystic met state regulations for disaster procedures, but details of the plan remain unclear.
"And our cabins are high up, and for them to be flooding, it's like, you know, something's wrong," Georgia Jones said.
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.
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The parents of 8-year-old Kellyanne Elizabeth Lytal confirmed to Fox News Digital Friday that Texas Rangers identified her as one of the Camp Mystic girls killed in the Texas Hill Country floods.
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"Their focus is fighting through that grief to stay connected with the families of their campers and helping them in any way they can," a camp spokesperson says
Generations of parents sent their daughters to the Christian camp on the Guadalupe. It suffered floods over the years but no one foresaw tragedy.
The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, revealing more than twice as many Americans live in flood prone areas than FEMA's maps show.