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FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors.
FEMA removed Camp Mystic structures from 100-year flood map years before deadly flooding: report
Federal regulators approved numerous appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map dating back to 2013 under former President Barack Obama and 2019 under the first Trump administration, according to a report. Severe flooding led to the death of children and counselors from the camp in Texas last week.
Bubble Inn saw generations of 8-year-olds enter as strangers and emerge as confident young ladies equipped with new skills ...
Amid chaos from the flood, campers huddled with young counselors—many unaware of the devastation just yards away.
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past ...
At least 19 of the cabins at Camp Mystic were located in designated flood zones, including some in an area deemed “extremely ...
"Their focus is fighting through that grief to stay connected with the families of their campers and helping them in any way ...
Dick Eastland, the Camp Mystic owner who pushed for flood alerts on the Guadalupe River, was killed in last week’s deadly ...
Controversy erupted after a fundraiser for Sade Perkins, a former Houston official who made racial comments about the 27 ...
Texas has identified more than $50 billion in flood control needs, but lawmakers have devoted just $1.4 billion to address ...
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