Camp Mystic, Texas and flash flood
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Bubble Inn saw generations of 8-year-olds enter as strangers and emerge as confident young ladies equipped with new skills from the great outdoors and lifelong friends – bonds that would one day prove vital in the face of unfathomable tragedy.
Search and recovery teams are also looking for a missing camp counselor who hasn't been seen since the July Fourth flooding catastrophe.
At least 19 of the cabins at Camp Mystic were located in designated flood zones, including some in an area deemed “extremely hazardous” by the county.
The thunder and lighting came to Camp Mystic first, but that was normal. The storm and the driving rain at the Texas camp woke up some of the campers, including Georgia and Eloise Jones, at about 1 a.m. on July 4. At first the pair thought nothing of it, they told ABC News. After all, it had been raining on and off for days.
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,