Dick Eastland, the Camp Mystic owner who pushed for flood alerts on the Guadalupe River, was killed in last week’s deadly surge.

Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before becoming First Lady,

Some camps in the region had to be evacuated, and local newspapers described how Camp Mystic was among those cut off from the outside world. According to a Kerr County history book, floodwaters at Camp Mystic almost reached the top of the dining hall’s stairs.

Maps show how heavy rainfall and rocky terrain helped create the devastating Texas floods that have killed more than 120 people.

Katherine Ferruzzo, a Camp Mystic counselor who had been missing since the Texas floods, was found dead on Friday, July 11, Ferruzzo's family confirmed in a statement obtained by NBC 5.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who referred to the flood as "extraordinarily catastrophic,” visited the Camp Mystic site on Saturday and said it had been "horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I’ve seen in any natural disaster."

Families of the missing girls have turned to social media, sharing photos and heartfelt messages in hopes of gathering any information.

In Texas Hill Country, a region prone to sudden, deadly floods, parts of a prominent summer camp were quietly removed from high-risk flood zone maps between 2013 and 2020. Camp Mystic, a private girls’ camp on the Guadalupe River,