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41. Chip Roy may not recognize it, but this is the truth.

Quick action by 1 Texas summer camp led to timely evacuations ahead of deadly flood

Despite an absence of warning by local authorities, camp officials acted quickly on their own.

By Associated Press
07/06/2025 07:37 PM EDT

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Local authorities have faced heavy scrutiny and at times have deflected questions about how much warning they had or were able to provide the public, saying the reviews will come later. For now, they say they’re focusing on rescues. Officials have said they did not expect such an intense downpour, the equivalent of months’ worth of rain for the area.

Mo-Ranch suffered no loss of life, said Winters, adding that the camp received no direct information from county officials about flooding that could — and did — take lives.

“We had no warning this was coming,” Winters said, adding that it would have been “devastating” had camp officials not been looking at weather reports and the rising river waters.

Mo-Ranch “saw it coming well in advance and they did something about it,” she said.

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