Texas, Camp Mystic and flood
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Federal regulators approved numerous appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map dating back to 2013 under former President Barack Obama and 2019 under the first Trump administration, according to a report. Severe flooding led to the death of children and counselors from the camp in Texas last week.
"And our cabins are high up, and for them to be flooding, it's like, you know, something's wrong," Georgia Jones said.
The “Bubble Inn” bunkhouse hosted the youngest kids at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp caught in the deadly July 4 flooding in the state’s Hill Country.
Follow live updates in the Texas floods, where the death toll has surpassed 100 as the search for survivors goes on.
Scott Ruskan, a Coast Guard swimmer, is credited with saving 165 people at the all-girls’ camp from deadly floods in Central Texas.
The Texas flooding tragedy left Americans nationwide mourning, but it especially devastated one Texas native with a personal connection to Camp Mystic. Jenna Bush Hager, whose mother was former first lady Laura Bush,
Days after flash floods killed over 100 people during the July Fourth weekend, search-and-rescue teams are using heavy equipment to untangle and peel away layers of trees, unearth large rocks in riverbanks and move massive piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for the missing people.