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It began with a text message from Camp La Junta, alerting parents to flooding in the area and warning that the 200-acre ...
The boys spent about 13 hours waiting for help and were eventually relocated to a safe shelter on the property.
He's a staff member this summer at Camp La Junta. The night of the flood, he was awakened by the popping sounds of pipes ...
“Oh my God, we’re floating,” Ruffin Boyett realized. The campers had to make a quick decision. “The flood started getting ...
Piers and Ruffin Boyett were fast asleep at Camp La Junta in Hunt, Texas, when they awoke at 4 a.m. Friday to rising flood ...
When too much rain falls for the ground to absorb, it runs downhill, pulled by gravity into streams, creeks and rivers.
The memories of going away to summer camp typically last a lifetime. For brothers Piers and Ruffin Boyett, their memories at ...
Amy and Joe Etheridge, of Cat Spring, say they dropped off their son, Windom, at Camp La Junta in Hunt, about 13 miles west ...
They clung to trees. They crawled out of windows and floated on mattresses. And they survived to tell the harrowing story of ...
Although Kerr County was hit hardest by flooding, at least seven others have been confirmed dead in different parts of Texas.
Eleven girls were missing from the camp, which has hosted the daughters of governors and one president. Rescue efforts ...
"We jumped up to another bed, a top bunk and like our beds started tipping over, and we got to the top really quick and then, ...