Texas, Camp Mystic and flood
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Coco Grieshaber, an 8-year-old Camp Mystic alumna, threaded beads into a homemade bracelet at her dining room table, sharing memories of the Texas summer camp that she left four days before flooding devastated the area on Fourth of July weekend.
Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the at least 120 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.
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.
A Texas woman with ties to Camp Mystic, which saw the deaths of at least 27 campers and counselors from the devastating July 4 floods, recalled her ordeal of being surrounded by water and surviving the deadly disaster.
The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas. And Camp Mystic – an all-girls Christian camp situated along the Guadalupe River – housed about 750 campers on the flood-prone site as heavy rains started pouring.
Taaffe called the counselors at Camp Mystic “heroes” and wore a tie to honor them and the young girls who died during the Central Texas flood.