A small-town grandma who disappeared on her way to work. A beloved director of Texas summer camp for girls. An Alabama elementary student away from home. These are a few of the dozens of victims ...

LETTERS that were written by children staying at Camp Mystic have started to arrive at their families’ homes after they died ...

The director of Camp Mystic waited more than an hour after receiving a life-threatening flood alert before beginning to evacuate campers asleep in their cabins, his family confirmed through a ...

A MOM who lost her daughter in the floods that swept through Texas’ Camp Mystic has shared details of a letter she wrote before her death.  Notes that children had written to their parents ...

A few specific sounds punctuate summer evenings in rural Iowa. A chorus of spring peepers, for example, or the shrill conk-la-ree of a red-winged blackbird on the side of a county road. But only one ...

Camp Mystic director died during Texas floods. Camp Mystic director Richard "Dick" Eastland is among those who died during the flooding. He and his wife, Tweety, had been running the camps for decades ...

The former manager and owner of Camp Mystic, Dick Eastland, was another to perish in the fatal floods. He and his wife had been running the camp since 1974, but it had been in his family for more ...

Camp Mystic Executive Director Dick Eastland died while attempting to rescue the youngest campers. Madison E. Goldberg, Hilary Shenfeld. Tue, July 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM UTC. 3 min read.

Camp Mystic, established in 1926, did not evacuate and was especially hard hit when the river rose from 4.2 metres to nine metres within 60 minutes in the early morning hours of the disaster.

The director of Camp Mystic waited more than an hour after receiving a life-threatening flood alert before beginning to evacuate campers asleep in their cabins, his family confirmed through a ...

Camp Mystic Director Dick Eastland. While the mobile alert issued a threat of "life threatening flash flooding” in Kerr County, Texas, it did not call for evacuations, according to the Post.