Camp Mystic, flood
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The 8-year-old was the final missing Camp Mystic girl after floods overtook the shores of the Guadalupe River in parts of Kerr County.
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.
Camp Mystic successfully appealed to remove several structures from a FEMA flood zone, despite being located in a high-risk flood area in Texas Hill Country.
The body of 8-year-old Virginia Hollis was found along the Guadalupe River earlier this week, more than a week after the catastrophic July 4 floods. She and at least 27 other campers and counselors from Camp Mystic were swept away. Several of the victims were from the Houston area.
Coco Grieshaber, an 8-year-old Camp Mystic alumna, threaded beads into a homemade bracelet at her dining room table, sharing memories of the Texas summer camp that she left four days before flooding devastated the area on Fourth of July weekend.
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Days after floodwaters swept through Camp Mystic and other parts of Central Texas, rescuers recovered the body of camper, Virginia Hollis.
The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas.
In a week dominated by talk of the upcoming college football season, Texas safety Michael Taaffe brought something different to SEC Media Days in Atlanta: perspective. Wearing a burnt orange tie stitched with the initials of the 27 victims at Camp Mystic,