Former campers and counselors speak on how the famed Hill Country camp became more than a place for summer games.

The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an emergency alert to phones in the area, a spokesman for camp’s operators said Wednesday.

Through obituaries and social media tributes, The Dallas Morning News pieced together the lives of more than a dozen Camp Mystic campers and