Texas State officials, the organizers of the summer camp appear to be at fault.

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51. That's sounding much more likely as the root cause

of why no one knew to evacuate. Campers had no phones. Counselors likely couldn't access phones due to restrictions. If camp directors were the only ones with phones, were they awake and monitoring the weather as they should have been, given all the flood warnings that had been issued, not just overnight, but starting that previous afternoon?

Yes, part of the problem is that in Texas we get lots of tornado warnings and flood warnings, and it doesn't always apply to you even if it is in your localized area. A tornado close to me might be moving in the other direction (this has happened to me--we still obviously took cover.) My phone was going off all day yesterday with multiple flood warnings for my area, but because my house is not in a flood plain, I was okay.

So the directors may have thought that this warning wasn't worth the trouble of evacuating camp because 999 times before, even if the river flooded some, they were okay. And maybe they missed the water rising in the night when it really began rising so rapidly because it was so dark and the only people down at the lower cabins were counselors and cabins without phones to warn them. But this is obviously irresponsible if you are in charge of children, when you have to by hyper vigilant.