More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.

At least 12 structures at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River were fully within FEMA’s 2011 National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County, and a few

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain.