Due to the floods that are tearing through Texas, a mother lost her daughter while away at a kids’ camp.
The floods are still ongoing in Texas and have already claimed the lives of 130 people, with hundreds more still missing. The devastating floods have taken Texas by surprise, and nobody was ready for the extent of the damage.
However, before they began, Lindsey McLeod McCrory decided to send her little girl to Camp Mystic beside the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country. The Christian summer camp was somewhere she remembered fondly growing up. She wanted her daughter to have the same experience.
“She could not wait to be in the outdoors. It was like having the biggest sleepover you can imagine as a little girl because you’re in a cabin with 11 girls who become your best friends, right?” the mother told People.
Cute Camp Trip Turns Tragedy
Thinking her daughter was having the time of her life in the Texas summer camp, Lindsey went on a holiday with her friend. While away in Europe, she heard of the floods but thought little of them. There had been downfalls when she was a girl.
Looking back, she disregarded the news “because that’s what I remembered: ‘Oh, rainy day, stay in your cabin, play board games, or listen to music, whatever. It’s going to pass.”
But the floods were much more serious than she thought, and eventually she received a call. A friend back home explained that the Guadalupe River had overflowed, and there were campers unaccounted for. She flew back immediately, hoping for the best, but fearing the worst.
For days, crews searched for her missing daughter but found nothing. It wasn’t until three days later that they finally found her daughter’s body. The floods had swept her away and taken her life. The mother is now hiding her grief behind her faith. “So I was calm. It gave me some closure, and I knew she was in a safe place, with her daddy, in heaven. I knew that it was going to be okay.”
Since then, she has been given her daughter’s belongings. In the package was a letter written to her mother, telling of how much fun she was having at camp. It is the last contact the two will have.