I can’t believe parents with children away at camp were not monitoring the weather in the vicinity. My son was at camp in the Catskills (upstate NY) during a hurricane and I certainly tracked the weather reports at the time.
The campers and their minders were asleep at the switch, with no night watchman and everyone’s cellphones turned off in an effort towards purity and an old-fashioned camping experience, but what were they thinking?
No flood drills? Housing the youngest campers at the lowest elevation near a river often prone to flooding?
For those who want to know more about this camp, a Washington Post reader offered a link to the history of the camp from Texas Monthly:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-not-so-happy-campers/ (The paywall is easily bypassed).