On the evening of July 3, in the hours before the floods, the girls, dressed in white for vespers, climbed up the camp’s Chapel Hill overlooking the glittering Guadalupe River. After their prayers, they slipped into their beds, lullabied to sleep by “Taps” and a heartfelt “Goodnight, Camp Mystic. We love you!” over the loudspeaker.
Thunder began cracking around 1:30 a.m., and the power went out shortly afterward. Water began to seep inside some of the cabins in the Flats, where 195 girls and 48 counselors were sleeping.
A New York Times analysis found that Twins, along with four other cabins in the Flats, were considered years ago to be sitting in part of the Guadalupe River’s floodway, a c
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