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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.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency included Camp Mystic in a "Special Flood Hazard Area" in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County, Texas, in 2011.
Search and recovery teams are also looking for a missing camp counselor who hasn't been seen since the July Fourth flooding catastrophe.
Flash floods in Central Texas claimed lives, including at Camp Mystic, where campers sang to cope. The camp director and others died, and the community mourns, with remembrance funds established.
Camp Mystic's emergency preparedness is questioned after catastrophic flooding killed 27 people. State inspections approved plans days before the disaster.