Texas, Camp Mystic and floods
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Satellite images show the damage left behind after floodwaters rushed through Camp Mystic, Camp La Junta and other summer camps on July 4.
Search and recovery teams are also looking for a missing camp counselor who hasn't been seen since the July Fourth flooding catastrophe.
Generations of parents sent their daughters to the Christian camp on the Guadalupe. It suffered floods over the years but no one foresaw tragedy.
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FOX Weather on MSNMother, son tell how historic floods swept through La Junta boys camp along Guadalupe RiverMore harrowing stories of survival are being told in the wake of historic flash flooding in central Texas that claimed at least 120 lives, including dozens of children who were at Camp Mystic, a historic summer camp nestled along the Guadalupe River.
Several girls who went missing after the floods were in the low-lying cabins on the “Flats,” where junior and intermediate campers live, less than 500 feet from the river bank. Senior campers stay in the nine cabins farther from the river, in a section of the camp called “Senior Hill.”
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.