The floods have killed at least 78 people throughout the region, including at least 28 children. Ten campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic were still missing, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said in an afternoon news conference Sunday.
While not identifying the camp by name, Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter announced Sunday that his granddaughters had also been saved from the flooding. But their cousin was killed, he said.
As you may have heard, my granddaughters were at the summer camp in Texas that flooded, Carter wrote on X. They are safe, and I thank you for your well-wishes and prayers during this time. Unfortunately, not everyone was as lucky. My granddaughters lost their cousin, Janie, and many other families are grieving loved ones.
Camp Mystic has long been favored ground for the states political elite. According to Texas Monthly, future first lady Laura Bush was a counselor at Camp Mystic when she was in college, and the daughters, granddaughters and great-grandfathers of President Lyndon B. Johnson attended camp there.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott visited the camps wreckage on Sunday. The rescue and recovery mission is ongoing, he said in a post on X.
We wont stop until we find every girl who was in those cabins, Abbott wrote.
