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Camp Mystic has deep roots with Texas politicians, including former first lady Laura Bush, who worked as a counselor there, and former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who sent his daughters there.
Rescue operations are ongoing in Central Texas after flash flooding along the Guadalupe River left 27 dead and 10 girls and one counselor unaccounted for at Camp Mystic. Officials said more than 100 have died as catastrophic floods ravaged the Hill Country.
After the devastating Texas flood, former Mystic campers have been making Tweety Cookies for first responders, fundraisers and comfort.
Generations of the same family have operated the summer camp since 1939. It counts family members of former president and governors as alumnae.
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.
About 700 children were at Camp Mystic when flash floods hit on Friday. Here's what we know about the storied summer camp for girls.
Next year, if it resumes operations, Camp Mystic will turn 100 years old. But should it celebrate that centennial milestone, it will woefully also commemorate the one-year anniversary of an awful weekend when so many jubilant young campers were lost.
Nearly 30 campers and counselors at the 99-year-old Hill Country institution died after flooding devastated the area on Friday.
Searches continue for those still missing, but memorials to the more than 100 people tragically lost in the Central Texas floods have already begun to appear. Around Dallas and across Texas, green ribbons commemorate the lives of the victims,