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A Camp Mystic camper will be escorted home to Bellville today by law enforcement agencies. Virginia Hollis, 8, was "a pure, joyful soul," family friends say.
More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.
Kerrville musician Robert Earl Keen plans to offer his own contribution to the healing process. He was slated for a concert in the city’s Louise Hays Park on July 4, but the torrential rains and record flooding made that impossible.
Generations of parents sent their daughters to the Christian camp on the Guadalupe. It suffered floods over the years but no one foresaw tragedy.
More than 700 people were at the camp when the July Fourth floods hit Kerr County in Central Texas. KERRVILLE, Texas — At the all-girls Camp Mystic, along the Guadalupe River, five campers are still not accounted for in the aftermath of historic and deadly floods that have upended life in the Texas Hill Country.
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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.
Multiple fatalities have been confirmed and frantic water rescues and searches were underway Friday as a "catastrophic" flooding emergency unfolded.
Texas floods: 133 dead as report claims Camp Mystic leader received flood warning hour before disaster - Flash flood warnings remain in effect across parts of Central Texas Tuesday morning as thunders