Dick Eastland, the Camp Mystic owner who pushed for flood alerts on the Guadalupe River, was killed in last week’s deadly surge.

Satellite images show the damage left behind after floodwaters rushed through Camp Mystic, Camp La Junta and other summer camps on July 4.

Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s emergency plan just two days before devastating floods killed over 27 people, mostly children, at the Texas summer camp.

More than 170 people are still believed to be missing a week after the forceful floodwater hit over the July Fourth weekend.

For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.

The storied Guadalupe River meanders through this Texas Hill Country town and into the unincorporated parts of Kerr County like a vein.

The president has defended his administration's response to the fatal flooding amid criticism that federal assistance could have been provided more quickly.

President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration for the county and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is on the ground there. Search and rescue operations are ongoing. After touring the flood zone,