Texas, Camp Mystic and Flood Zone
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This weekend, a South Side community center is gearing up for huge sports camp for youngsters. Parents are flocking to get their children in on this female flag football frenzy.
"We are at Camp Lakamaga today, and this is our third day of Power Girls Camp," Marisa Williams, CEO of Girl Scouts River Valleys, said. "A lot of folks think about Girl Scouts and they think cookies, camps and crafts, and we are so much more than that. This is like a supercharged craft, though, when I think about it."
Linda Bason and Deana Hillock checked into the HTR campground on July 3 for a mother-daughter weekend. The next morning, the Kerrville camp was destroyed.
Hero Texas camp director Richard “Dick” Eastland battled floods for decades and even saw his pregnant wife once airlifted off the grounds to a hospital because of a deluge.
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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.
A heartbreaking video shows campers and staffers at Camp Mystic being playful and enjoying their summer hours before waters from the catastrophic Texas flash flood swept away scores of young girls. Camp Mystic nurse Devon Paige shared a video compilation on TikTok of campers from the sleepaway camp dancing,
ArtFarm Studios co-owner and instructor Alison Harbaugh has the girls write in the journals who they would photograph and how if they could photograph anyone. Students take part in ArtFarm Studios Fearless Girls Photography Camp in Annapolis. (Paul W. Gillespie/Staff)