Camp Mystic Parents Demand Changes
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“However, Camp Mystic supports legislative efforts that will make camps and communities along the Guadalupe River safer,” the camp said in a statement to CNN. The camp’s owner and executive director Dick Eastland, who died in the flood while trying ...
The parents of girls who lost their lives at Camp Mystic on July 4 will testify before the Texas Senate Disaster Preparedness and Flooding Select Committee in support of Senate Bill 1.
On Wednesday, for the first time, Camp Mystic families detailed their experience of their daughters who died in Texas Hill Country flooding.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNHistory repeated itself when the Guadalupe River swept away Camp Mystic. Why few lessons were learned after the 1987 flood.
The Fourth of July flood bore a striking similarity to the Hill Country flood that killed 10 summer campers in 1987. In the following years, officials took little action to protect against the next storm.
Texts and emails obtained by ABC News show how officials with a Texas river authority responded as the July Fourth floods ravaged Kerr County.
More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.