2 generations of Camp Mystic counselors among flood victims
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KERR COUNTY, Texas – Emergency crews are searching for possible missing campers after catastrophic flooding hit Camp Mystic, a private Christian girls’ camp in Kerr County.
Police are investigating after a woman was struck by three vehicles along Route 1 in East Falls on Tuesday morning. According to police, the incident happened at about 5:05 a.m., when a woman in the roadway heading southbound was struck by three vehicles on Roosevelt Boulevard between Fox Street and Ridge Avenue.
Kerr County is reeling from deadly July 4th flooding, with 43 deaths and 27 girls from Camp Mystic missing, prompting evacuations and intense search efforts.
The flash flood was the deadliest from inland flooding in the U.S. since Colorado’s Big Thompson Canyon flood on July 31, 1976, killed 144 people, said Bob Henson, a meteorologist with Yale Climate Connections. That flood surged through a narrow canyon packed with people on a holiday weekend marking Colorado’s centennial.
David Simmons, 55, of Elizabethtown, watched first-hand a similar tragedy unfold in the same area of central Texas almost 40 years ago. He hasn't forgotten what he witnessed.
In Kerr County, which has been the most impacted, at least 43 people are dead and 27 children remain missing tonight after floodwaters swept through Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls. The statewide death toll thus far stands at 51 people. The number of deaths blamed on the flooding in Texas has risen to 51 tonight.
A desperate search was underway in Texas for those still missing — among them dozens of young girls from a Christian sleepaway camp — after intense rainfall rapidly overwhelmed the Guadalupe
Ex-Houston board appointee Sadé Perkins faced backlash for offensive comments about Camp Mystic after deadly floods, with her boyfriend rebuking her statements.
The reverend boyfriend of the former Houston mayoral appointee who went on a tirade against Camp Mystic -- where 27 campers and counselors were killed in the Texas flooding -- has criticized his ...
At least 27 died in one of the worst disasters ever for summer camps. The tragedy shines a spotlight on America's camps and whether they're safe.