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The Federal Emergency Management Agency included Camp Mystic in a "Special Flood Hazard Area" in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County, Texas, in 2011.
Bubble Inn saw generations of 8-year-olds enter as strangers and emerge as confident young ladies equipped with new skills from the great outdoors and lifelong friends – bonds that would one day prove vital in the face of unfathomable tragedy.
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Katherine Ferruzzo had been accepted to the University of Texas at Austin for the fall semester and planned to become a Special Education teacher, her family said.
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FOX Weather on MSNTrinity University coach mourns ‘kind spirit’ of 8-year-old daughter who died at Camp MysticThe 8-year-old daughter of a Trinity University coach is among the dozens of Camp Mystic campers killed by the July Fourth weekend flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas' Hill Country, the family confirmed to FOX Weather.
"And our cabins are high up, and for them to be flooding, it's like, you know, something's wrong," Georgia Jones said.
At least 19 of the cabins at Camp Mystic were located in designated flood zones, including some in an area deemed “extremely hazardous” by the county.