LBJ's daughters, granddaughters, great-granddaughters attended Camp Mystic. Laura Bush was a camp counselor

[dalton99a]

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/camp-mystic-texas-hill-country-flooding-rescue/

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Camp Mystic, which offers two 4-week terms and one 2-week term over the summer, has been the go-to summer camp for daughters of Texans for nearly a century — especially the state’s political elite.

“Mystic girls,” as campers are called, include the daughters of former Texas governors Price Daniel, Dan Moody and John Connally, according to a 2011 article by Texas Monthly. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters also attended.

First Lady Laura Bush was a camp counselor. Counselors typically are college-aged, some work there right after graduating high school.

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[Hekate]

1. Sounds like a real Texas tradition

[eppur_se_muova]

2. IIRC, LBJ's father once planted a whole grove of pecan trees on similar land. All washed away in a flood.

Apparently, if you live in TX Hill Country floods are a part of life. Not exactly predictable when they'll happen, but that they'll happen is a certainty.

When you see a sign like this, you should think two things:



1) Someone thought it was necessary to post a warning, probably after the last time the flood level was well above 9 feet;
2) Stay off this road. Find a detour. Any detour.

I spent only two years in San Antonio. I found the flood gauges well above the roof of my car at many off-ramps just too unsettling.

[Tetrachloride]

3. Texas Roulette. pick a flood, any flood

[Raine]

4. Very interesting, thanks for the info. nt

[malaise]

5. I heard last night that a ReTHUG Congressman's daughters were there

They survived

Representative August Pfluger shared that he and his wife were reunited with their two daughters, who were attending Camp Mystic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-flooding-2025-latest-news-mystic-camp-map-deaths-b2783426.html
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[ananda]

6. I went to Campfire Girl camp near Dallas for two summers.

It was a week long, and it was fun.

No religion involved, though.

[Paladin]

7. Summer camp in Texas has been a very serious matter for many years.

Every bit as important as which fraternity or sorority you join in college.