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FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map
before expansion, records show
Source: AP
Updated 7:17 AM EDT, July 12, 2025
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s
buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before
rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The
Associated Press found.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls’
summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood
Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it was required to
have flood insurance and faced tighter regulation on any future
construction projects.
That designation means an area is likely to be inundated during a 100-
year flood — one severe enough that it only has a 1% chance of happening
in any given year. Located in a low-lying area along the Guadalupe River
in a region known as flash flood alley, Camp Mystic lost at least 27
campers and counselors and longtime owner Dick Eastland when historic floodwaters tore through its property before dawn on July 4.
The flood was far more severe than the 100-year event envisioned by FEMA, experts said, and moved so quickly in the middle of the night that it
caught many off guard in a county that lacked a warning system.
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-map- records-investigation-e12bee8d5f88301363861ca12c19b929
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Note to stupid KKKlan: "in a county that lacked a warning system"
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