The survival of people in local camps and low-lying areas depended not on official evacuations but on whether they were paying attention, on their own, to weather alerts in the middle of the night.

The Hunt family is in mourning after devastating flooding struck central Texas over the July 4 holiday weekend. The death toll has risen to near 90 from massive rains in the Texas Hill Country that led to catastrophic flooding of the Guadalupe River — and the heartbreaking losses include 9-year-old Janie Hunt.

HUNT, Texas — Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.

Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central Texas over the holiday weekend.

The tragic floods that ravaged Texas in early July have taken many lives, including the great granddaughter of the late oil magnate William Herbert Hunt, nine-year-old Janie Hunt. Janie was supposedly present at Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp in Kerr County, when the area was swept up in catastrophic floodwaters.

KERR COUNTY, Texas — In the heart of Kerr County, where the north and south forks of the Guadalupe River meet, the tiny town of Hunt is grappling with staggering destruction following the catastrophic flooding that swept through Central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend.