Texas, Mystic and Floodplain
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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.
The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas.
Radar data can estimate rainfall to a fairly accurate amount. The rain data in the case of the deadly tragedy that unfolded in the Texas Hill Country last weekend shows exactly why the area around Camp Mystic and the Guadalupe River, outside of San Antonio, had such a raging flash flood.
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Midland Reporter-Telegram on MSNMidlanders tie green bows on trees honor Texas Hill Country flood victimsAcross Texas, green bows are starting to adorn trees, honoring the lives lost and the communities impacted by the devastating Texas Hill County floods. The flash floods over the Fourth of July weekend killed more than 100 people, and an unknown number are still missing.
The Coast Guard team aboard Rescue 6553 saved nearly 200 people trapped by the deadly floods in Texas this past week.
The Texas music legend, whose daughters grew up attending Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River, is plotting a benefit concert and trying to make sense of an incomprehensible tragedy
Hundreds of parents waited hours Saturday for girls to arrive in Kerrville after their Camp Waldemar stay was cut short by the deadly Guadalupe River flood.