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Fox Weather on MSNTexas Camp Mystic families hold out hope for 5 missing girls, counselor after 27 swept away by floodingAs the search for five missing Camp Mystic campers and one counselor continues, the summer camp community in Texas and across the country is offering support for a place that has become special to thousands of girls over the years.
People awoke from water rushing around them during the early morning hours of July 4, all along the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country. Residents were seemingly caught off guard, but warnings had been issued days and hours before floodwaters began carrying away homes,
Jane Ragsdale ran the Heart O' the Hills camp for girls in Kerr County. The camp was between sessions when the deluge hit. The only person killed there was Ragsdale.
While on summer break from Sam Houston State University, Nathan Kleinhenz said he felt helpless watching the coverage of the Hill Country floods over the last week. On Friday, he traveled from his home in Missouri City,
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President Donald Trump is set to survey the damage in the hard-hit county where Camp Mystic campers and staff are among the 96 dead
We're updating you with the latest in Texas on flood victims, recovery efforts, donation and volunteer opportunities and more.
Among the victims of the Kerrville flooding: 70-year-old Dick Eastland, director of Camp Mystic. The Texas Newsroom’s Blaise Gainey reports on Eastland’s legacy and the impact of a tragedy felt deeply across generations of Texas families. All this, plus the Texas Newsroom’s state roundup and Wells Dunbar with the Talk of Texas.
The deadly floods that struck Texas on the Fourth of July caught local officials off guard as the torrential rains caused the Guadalupe River to overflow in minutes.