Texas, flash flood and Camp Mystic
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Records released Tuesday show Camp Mystic met state regulations for disaster procedures, but details of the plan remain unclear.
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Following catastrophic flooding in the central region of Texas, officials continue to look for missing children at Camp Mystic. Here's what to know about the camp hit hardest by the flooding.
Heartbreaking visuals show the aftermath showed belongings of girls and other campers outside Camp Mystic. People place a cross near the Guadalupe River in honour of those who lost their lives. A counselor and three children from Camp Mystic are still unaccounted for.
The death toll from Friday morning’s horrific flooding rose to at least 80 across Texas on Sunday evening, with 68 of the deaths in Kerr County, where Camp Mystic is based.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday during a press conference that about 23 girls were still missing after major flooding at a private Christian summer camp in Hunt.
The search is continuing on the grounds of Camp Mystic as more than 160 people are believed to be missing in Texas days after a destructive wall of water killed over 100 people.
Campers as young as 8-years-old were swept away by catastrophic flooding in central Texas when tropical rainfall sent the Guadalupe River surging onto Camp Mystic, where the young campers slept.
Footage circulating on social media shows girls at Camp Mystic enjoying a variety of activities shortly before flash floods devastated Central Texas.
Stories of rescues have begun trickling out, but some children from a storied summer camp on the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country remain unaccounted for.
Scott Ruskan, a Coast Guard swimmer, is credited with saving 165 people at the all-girls’ camp from deadly floods in Central Texas.