The survival of people in local camps and low-lying areas depended not on official evacuations but on whether they were paying attention, on their own, to weather alerts in the middle of the night.

For nearly a century, Texas’s Camp Mystic has been a beloved summertime hub of joy for generations of girls across the state. Located along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas, the all-girls Christian camp is famous for hosting presidents’ daughters and for its years-long waitlist.