Texas, Camp Mystic and flood
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Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as more than 173 are missing as rescuers continue a desperate search
Records released Tuesday show Camp Mystic met state regulations for disaster procedures, but details of the plan remain unclear.
The details of Camp Mystic's emergency plans were not included in the records released by the state. DSHS released the July 2 inspection report along with five years of reports of the youth camp.
Molly Claire DeWitt "had a heart as expansive as her imagination," her obituary shares. She is one of 109 people who died in Central Texas due to floods in Kerr, Travis, Kendall, Burnet, Williamson and Tom Green counties.
The Paschal High School student traded Fort Worth’s cityscape for a summer in Texas Hill Country, her spiritual home nestled in sky-scraping cypress and pecan trees along the bank of the Guadalupe River.
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An Ingram, Texas carpenter has built a massive cross to be cemented outside Camp Mystic to honor those that lost their lives in the deadly flash floods that swept through central Texas during July 4th weekend.
On the morning of July 7, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo expressed condolences for the lives lost in the floods. She also recognized Garza and Zárate for their efforts helping save camp attendees. “They make us proud,” she said.
Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight's little sister, Paisley, was at a camp on a smaller arm of the Guadalupe River. The 14-year-old was "just miles" away from Camp Mystic in Central Texas, which has been devastated by the deadly floodwaters spurred by extreme rainfall on July 4.