A Century of Floods at Camp Mystic
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The body of a young Houston girl reported missing during the catastrophic flooding in Kerr County has been found.
The number of fatalities connected to the Kerr County floods has risen to 75, local officials said Monday as search and rescue efforts continue and Camp Mystic grieved ”the loss of 27 campers and counselors”.
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.
As the death count in the Independence Day flooding in central Texas has now surpassed that of Hurricane Harvey, with dozens of children reported dead and
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Religion News Service on MSNCamp Mystic’s Christian sisterhood spans generations and nationsTwins Christi and Misti attended Camp Mystic in the 1980s and ’90s. The reverence for the camp, they said, spans not just generations but continents. “It’s a global sisterhood,” Christi said. “When we went to camp, we had people from Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe.” She specifically remembers camping with three girls from Spain.
New satellite images released from Maxar Technologies show the destruction of the flash floods that have resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people over the July 4 weekend.Local authorities estimate around 160 people are still missing as Thursday marks the seventh day of the search for victims.
Just two days before devastating floods claimed at least 27 lives at Camp Mystic, the Texas Department of State Health Services signed off on the youth camp's emergency plans, according to records obtained by ABC News.