"The 4 July floods, which claimed more than 130 lives across the region and was described as some of the US's deadliest floods in decades, devastated the 99-year-old Christian all-girls camp, located on the banks of the Guadalupe river in Kerr county. Twenty-five young campers, two teenage counselors and the camp's longtime owner, Dick Eastland, died after flood waters inundated the property."
"One complaint, filed on behalf of the families of five campers and two counselors who died, accuses the camp of putting profit over safety and alleges that it chose to house campers in cabins sitting in flood-prone areas, despite the risk to avoid the cost of relocating the cabins. According to the filing, as the river began to rise on 4 July, camp leaders directed its groundskeepers to spend over an hour evacuating camp equipment, not its campers and counselors."
"The filing alleges that the camp chose not to evacuate the Bubble Inn and Twins cabins when other campers and counselors had been moved to safe, higher ground just 300 feet away. Instead, the camp chose to order its campers and counselors to remain in the Bubble Inn and Twins cabins while the flood waters overwhelmed the camp, it adds."
A catastrophic 4 July flood in Texas killed more than 130 people and inundated a 99-year-old Christian all-girls camp on the Guadalupe River in Kerr County. Twenty-five campers, two teenage counselors, and the camp owner, Dick Eastland, died when flood waters overwhelmed the property. Multiple lawsuits filed by families accuse Camp Mystic and the Eastland family of gross negligence, claiming known flood risks were ignored, safety procedures were inadequate, and evacutation failures occurred. One complaint alleges profit-driven decisions to keep cabins in flood-prone areas and that staff prioritized removing equipment over evacuating campers.
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