By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.

The July 4 tragedy at Camp Mystic outside of Hunt, Texas, was concentrated at just two cabins where Mystic’s youngest campers bunked and where a confluence of rising water from the river and a normal...

Eastland died while trying to rescue girls and was found in his Tahoe that was swept away by the floodwaters, Carr said.