Rescue operations are ongoing in Central Texas after flash flooding along the Guadalupe River left 23 girls from Camp Mystic unaccounted for. Officials say dozens have died as catastrophic floods continue to ravage the Hill Country.

Camp Mystic has deep roots with Texas politicians, including former first lady Laura Bush, who worked as a counselor there, and former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who sent his daughters there.

Three Texas governors, Dan Moody, John Connally, and Price Daniel, all sent their daughters to Camp Mystic between the 1930s and 1960s. At the same time, future First Lady Laura Bush served as a camp counselor while attending Southern Methodist University in the mid-’60s.

Next year, if it resumes operations, Camp Mystic will turn 100 years old. But should it celebrate that centennial milestone, it will woefully also commemorate the one-year anniversary of an awful weekend when so many jubilant young campers were lost.

When the floodwaters came crashing through Camp Mystic over Fourth of July weekend, it wasn’t a rescue team that reached

Robert Earl Keen, a Texas music legend who has a ranch in Kerrville and whose daughters attended Camp Mystic, talks about the impact of July 4 floods.

For close to 100 years, the eight-year-old's family members spent their summers at camps along the region's glittering hills and riverbanks, including the private all-girls Christian summer camp tucked along a bend in the Guadalupe River. Blakely was one of 27 Camp Mystic campers who lost their lives after floods devastated Kerr County July 4.