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.
Former Camp Mystic camper and counselor Margaret Donnelly remembers the camp as a "magical place," as the search continues for the missing after deadly flooding in Kerr County.
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.
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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.
A disaster plan for Camp Mystic was approved by Texas inspectors just days before devastating flooding killed more than 20 people at the Christian all-girls summer camp, according to records
Neither will ever get a chance to fulfill those dreams. The twins, who had just finished second grade, died along with 25 other campers and counselors at Camp Mystic in horrific flooding in the Texas Hill Country that killed dozens more Friday. The girls left behind a devastated big sister along with their parents.
The threat of heavy rain is “slight” for this weekend, but with the ground fully saturated in Kerr County even small amounts of rainfall could cause flooding.