Overview

• Eastland family spokesperson Jeff Carr now says campers began moving to higher ground at 2:00 a.m., revising earlier reports of a 2:30 a.m. start to evacuations
• Kerr County stopped maintaining its gauge-based flood-alert network in 1999, leaving Camp Mystic without local automated warnings when waters surged
• The camp’s loudspeaker system failed after power loss and its no-phone policy prevented campers from receiving alternative alerts during the flood
• Camp Mystic lies within a FEMA-mapped floodway along the Guadalupe River, where waters rose more than 26 feet in just 45 minutes
• Executive Director Dick Eastland died trying to rescue campers and is now one focus of investigations into leadership decisions and preparedness gaps