As search and rescue efforts press onward in central Texas following the deadly flash flood, many are feeling grief and anxiety over the devastation wrought on an all-girls camp caught in the deluge.

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

“It’s hard not to feel like you are surrounded by a higher power when you’re down there, because it’s just so beautiful,” my friend Olivia Marrus told me.