FEMA loosened flood oversight at Camp Mystic before deadly Texas floods

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to region Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight arsenic the campy operated and expanded successful a unsafe flood plain successful the years earlier rushing waters swept distant children and counsellors, a reappraisal by Associated Press found. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) included the prestigious girls’ summertime campy successful a “Special Flood Hazard Area” successful its National Flood Insurance representation for Kerr County successful 2011, which means it...