As Texas Hill Country reckons with the destruction caused by the July 4 floods, a community of young people and adults with disabilities feared they wouldn’t get the summer experience they’d waited for all year at Camp CAMP, located along the Guadalupe River.

"At a time like this, there is really no other way to help than just letting them know that we're thinking about them."

The director of Camp Mystic waited more than an hour after receiving a life-threatening flood alert before beginning to evacuate campers asleep in their cabins, his family confirmed through a spokesman.

After his daughters survived the Texas foods that inundated Camp Mystic, a Texas congressman recalled how one of his girls prayed for the safety of her friends as the floodwaters rose.

Bubble Inn saw generations of 8-year-olds enter as strangers and emerge as confident young ladies equipped with new skills from the great outdoors and lifelong friends – bonds that would one day prove vital in the face of unfathomable tragedy.

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had been considered part of a flood-hazard zone.

"Once I was in the attic, I gave 911 our names and our address so that they could identify our bodies," Ashley Smith shared of her experience

Malaya Grace Hammond is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Hammond's family said she was swept away by floodwaters on Saturday in Travis County.