The long road to tragedy at the Texas girls camp where floods claimed 27 lives

Before and after images showing how Hunt, Texas, was affected by the flooding Guadalupe River.
Photograph: Nearmap

Investigators of the catastrophic Hill Country flooding in Texas may never be able to pinpoint a precise moment that sealed the fate of 27 young girls, teenage counselors and staff who perished after a wall of water surged through Camp Mystic on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

But perhaps no bigger clue can be found than the account of an otherwise unremarkable and sparsely attended meeting of Kerr county commissioners in March 2018.