The devastating flash floods that tore through summer camps along the Guadalupe River on 4 July 2025 mirror a haunting 17 July 1987 disaster when a church bus carrying teenagers from Pot O' Gold Christian Camp near Comfort was swept away, leaving 10 dead and prompting anguished calls for a river-wide siren network that authorities never built.
Nearly four decades later, those sirens still do not exist even as Kerr County's death toll reached 75 people, including 48 adults and 27 children, with 10 campers and one counsellor from Camp Mystic still missing after the Guadalupe River surged more than 20 feet in just 95 minutes during the early hours of Friday morning.
