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  • Camp Mystic owners apologize for deadly flood plan failures and push to reopen over Texas lawmakers’ objections

    04/29/2026 5:58:54 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 29 replies
    CNN ^ | April 29, 2026 | Ashley Killough; Ed Lavendera
    After two days of emotional testimony, Texas lawmakers and investigators Tuesday laid out a grim assessment of Camp Mystic’s leaders’ role in last summer’s devastating floods that left 27 dead: no real evacuation plan and a delayed response as waters rose. That’s raised mounting doubts for state lawmakers about whether the camp should reopen as planned. The work of the state legislative committee – led by the same two investigators lawmakers hired in 2022 to investigate the Uvalde school massacre – offered the clearest picture yet of what happened at Camp Mystic’s Guadalupe River campus in July, pieced together through...