Camp Mystic’s co-owner solely began evacuating campers greater than 45 minutes after getting an emergency alert in regards to the “life-threatening” flash floods, it has been revealed.
Richard “Dick” Eastland — who died attempting to save lots of younger ladies at his Hunt, Texas, camp on the Guadalupe River — obtained the preliminary Nationwide Climate Service blast on his cellphone at about 1:14 a.m., a spokesperson for his household instructed ABC Information.
However he solely started relocating campers on the personal all-girls Christian camp to greater floor by 2:00 a.m. — simply because the state of affairs started deteriorating quickly.
“They had no information that indicated the magnitude of what was coming,” the household spokesperson, Jeff Carr, mentioned of the floods that will kill 27 kids and counselors.
“They got a standard run-of-the-mill NWS warning that they’ve seen dozens of times before,” Carr mentioned.
Eastland instantly started speaking with members of the family who labored on the camp through walkie-talkie as quickly as he acquired the alert, which didn’t embody an evacuation warning, based on Carr.
They began transferring campers to greater floor after they noticed the flood waters, he added.
Carr mentioned the timeline, which he pressured was preliminary, had been pieced collectively after talking with Eastland members of the family who labored on the camp and frantically helped within the evacuation.
He famous the household wished to launch the timeline to keep away from hypothesis after the devastating flash floods ended up claiming the lives of 27 kids and counselors.
