Overview

• Search and recovery operations continue at Camp Mystic under a federal disaster declaration, with power restored and aid pouring in from the local community.
• Twenty-seven campers and counselors were killed in the July 4 flood, including co-owner Richard “Dick” Eastland who perished while rescuing children.
• Eastland had championed flood warning systems since a 1987 camp tragedy and served on the r GuadGuadalupe River Authority board to push for automated alerts.
• An early gauge-based alert system was decommissioned by 1999 after unreliable performance, and officials are now reviewing a centralized monitoring dashboard proposal.
• The Eastland family is supporting victims’ relatives even as they mourn the loss of a third-generation co-manager of their 84-year-old camp.