Camp staff went to bed following what seemed like routine flood warnings. Within hours, they were fighting for survival. “Chaos struck almost instantaneously.”

The Texas summer camp where children died in flooding is in an area meteorologists refer to as "Flash Flood Alley."

Two grandchildren of a former Detroit Free Press publisher and executive editor were among those killed in catastrophic flooding that overtook a girls' camp in Texas. David Lawrence Jr. confirmed his 8-year-old twin granddaughters, Hanna and Rebecca, died in the flooding over the July 4 weekend at Camp Mystic in Texas.