For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.

Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the at least 120 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.

The director of Camp Mystic waited more than an hour after receiving a life-threatening flood alert before beginning to evacuate campers asleep in their cabins, his family confirmed through a spokesman.

Next year, if it resumes operations, Camp Mystic will turn 100 years old. But should it celebrate that centennial milestone, it will woefully also commemorate the one-year anniversary of an awful weekend when so many jubilant young campers were lost.

But the river can be treacherous when flash floods happen. In the early morning hours on July Fourth 2025, a wall of water swamped Camp Mystic. Among the victims of the flood: longtime camp director Dick Eastland, who died trying to move some of the campers to higher ground.

Hero Texas camp director Richard “Dick” Eastland battled floods for decades and even saw his pregnant wife once airlifted off the grounds to a hospital because of a deluge.

Flash floods killed dozens across Texas Hill Country over the holiday weekend as torrential rains swept the region.

A Southern rabbi’s son fled sleepaway camp — and found freedom (and a girlfriend) at a Chabad day camp instead.

Authorities in Texas say more than 50 people have died in devasting flooding in Texas. They include a 68-year-old camp director, an Alabama elementary student away for the summer and a woman who