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Camp Mystic director Dick Eastland and other rescuers used SUVs to move girls to safety from three cabins closest to the ...
Dozens of girls were killed in the July 4 floods at the height of summer camp season. Who should have known better?
Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before ...
Former campers and counselors speak on how the famed Hill Country camp became more than a place for summer games.
Hundreds of thousands have viewed the short, hand-held video taken by a nurse on a bus carrying the surviving young girls ...
Generations of the same family have operated the summer camp since 1939. It counts family members of a former president and governors as alumnae.
The Hill Country has a hold on the hearts of many Texans, meaning the suffering caused by the disaster is reaching as far as ...
With hundreds confirmed dead, questions remain about the local response to flood warnings. Meanwhile, lawmakers will weigh ...
Science and technology have made many hazards predictable in ways that were unthinkable 150 years ago. Tragedies, like the ...
The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a ...
There will be a temptation to restore things just as they were, but the river has shown us we can never go back.
Readers have questions about Texas’ inaction after years of floods and why people keep building in flood zones.