Generations of parents sent their daughters to the Christian camp on the Guadalupe. It suffered floods over the years but no one foresaw tragedy.

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.

Camp Mystic flood claims 27 lives as summer camp tragedies continue across America, from deadly flash floods and drownings to the infamous Girl Scout murders and natural disasters.

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Kim Nelson, Chief Program Officer at the YMCA of Metro Atlanta, says the incident has prompted a renewed focus on safety. ... The death toll from the flooding at Camp Mystic stands at 120, ...

The only flooding Orgain recalled from her years at Mystic was in 2004, when Cypress Creek, a tributary of the Guadalupe that cuts through the camp property, overflowed a low-lying bridge.

Camp Mystic, a girls’ camp along the river where at least 27 people lost their lives, experienced severe flooding sometime between 2 and 3 a.m., according to accounts from parents whose children ...

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.

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

New York state’s 2024 camp incident report also shows COVID-19, pink eye, coxsackie virus and gastroenteritis were common camp ailments. And sometimes fate outranks precaution. "It’s not a ...