On July 4th, at 1.14 a.m.,
Camp Mystic Executive Director Dick Eastland got a severe flood warning on his phone.
He rallied his family members who lived and worked at the camp, including his son,
Richard Eastland Jr. Richard spoke to my colleague, Arlise Hernandez, on July 5th.
I think we're in a watch, but we do get watches a lot in this area,
and we have floods, but this I don't know how else to explain it.
It was tremendous and it was fast.
We've never had water this high ever.
This feels like a one in 500 year flood, maybe more.
Richard said they started working to evacuate campers, but the water was rising quickly.
By the time they started to reach some of the cabins around 2 30 a.m,
it was impossible to get all the girls to safety.
In the darkness of night, you know, rain coming down, just chaos.
I just can't believe, I don't know, I don't know.
27 campers and staff have been confirmed dead.
Richard's dad, Dick, died trying to save some of the youngest campers.
My colleague, Annie Gallin, has been reporting on what went wrong.
Camp Mystic was really important to generations of women, mostly from Texas, but around the South.
It was this beautiful, very isolated place.
One of the things that was important was that the kids don't have any screens,