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Camp Mystic's executive director began evacuating campers approximately 45 minutes after the National Weather Service issued a "life-threatening flash flooding" alert.
The words "American Camp Association Accredited" is what some parent tells KXAN investigators they look for before deciding on a summer camp.
State and local officials said they did their best to coordinate evacuations and rescues, but better cellphone service might help in future floods.
Photos of Camp Mystic and other areas along the Guadalupe River shows the devastating aftermath of the Fourth of July floods in Texas.
A fresh wave of floods battered Central Texas on Monday, delaying some rescue efforts as the death toll climbed to 131. Officials ordered volunteer crews to suspend search operations near the Guadalupe River in Kerr County,
Many of the 650 campers and staffers at Camp Mystic were asleep when, at 1:14 a.m., a flash-flood warning for Kerr County, Texas, with “catastrophic” potential for loss of life was issued by the National Weather Service.
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.