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Where couples once exchanged vows beneath towering cypress trees along the Guadalupe River, only a bare concrete slab remains. What had been Dan Schoen’s outdoor wedding venue and family retreat — a peaceful riverside escape just yards from the water — was erased in minutes by a flood so powerful it bent 40-foot trees and scoured nearly a mile-wide path of destruction.
Camp Mystic, according to the Texas Tribune, has hosted the daughters of former governors, a president, and other politicians through summers. Rep. August Pfluger of Texas revealed his daughters were staying at the camp and had been evacuated and reunited with their family following the deadly flooding.
A group of parents whose children died in the July 4 floods claim in a federal lawsuit that Camp Mystic's emergency instructions directed kids to stay in cabins even though state law requires evacuation plans for camps.
Camp Mystic in the Texas Hill Country is planning to reopen this summer, nearly a year after deadly Fourth of July floods killed 27 campers and counselors and devastated families across the region. The camp is now facing a fifth lawsuit from a victim’s family,
In their first television interview, the parents of 19-year-old Katherine Ferruzzo are demanding changes from Camp Mystic, where their daughter died in last summer's devastating floods.