Along the Guadalupe River and just miles south of the unincorporated community of Hunt, population 1,300, sits Camp Mystic. The private Christian summer camp has hosted generations of Texas girls for almost a century.

As the floodwaters recede from Camp Mystic, a torrent of grief remains for the families of the children who died and those who went missing when flash floods tore through central Texas earlier this week.

At least 27 girls remained missing early Sunday after floodwaters devastated Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp in Hunt, Texas As search and rescue efforts entered a third day, the disaster was