More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.

Catherine Wendlandt, a freelance writer in Texas who has written stories for Chron, attended Camp Mystic as a camper from 2004 to '13, then served as a counselor from 2014 to '16. Wendlandt shared this tribute to camp counselors,

Camp Mystic reportedly waited an hour to evacuate after warnings of ‘life-threatening’ Texas floods - Executive Director Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, 70, drowned while trying to rescue some of the younges