Camp Mystic, Texas and floods
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Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.
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Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s emergency plan just two days before devastating floods killed over 27 people, mostly children, at the Texas summer camp.
Officials in Kerr County, Texas — where 27 campers and counselors at a Christian summer camp were killed in catastrophic flooding — had discussed installing a flood warning system
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.
The toll in Texas floods has now climbed to at least 129, making it one of the United States' deadliest rainfall-driven flash floods.