Plans to develop a flood monitoring system in the Texas county hit hardest by deadly floods were scheduled to begin only a few weeks later.

After hearing a young woman scream for her life on the flooded Guadalupe River, Carl Jeter called first responders to rescue her after she tread water for 15 miles.

In the week since the flood, generations of Mystic Girls are turning to each other. They are seeking the familiar that takes them back to camp.

But the Guadalupe River, named in 1689 by Spanish explorers for a revered apparition of the mother of Jesus Christ, also long has held a quiet fury that can unleash powerful, often deadly flooding ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors,

The same region of Texas that experienced catastrophic, deadly flooding over the Fourth of July weekend also experienced massive flooding in the past. A 1987 flood in Kerr County resulted in the death of 33 people,