UPDATE: Spokesman for Eastland family that operates Camp Mystic tells News 4 I-Team the Washington Post timeline of the camp’s evacuation is “premature”. Jeff Carr says “People weren’t looking at their watches” and that the Eastland family is still

putting together a timeline of their own. “We’re working on it,” Carr said. “The only audience they care about are the families of the victims.”

SAN ANTONIO – New details on how the flooding and evacuation unfolded at Camp Mystic.

A camp spokesperson tells The Washington Post that Executive Director Dick Eastland did receive the urgent alert from the National Weather Service, but evacuations didn’t begin until about an hour later.

Twenty-seven campers and counselors died when floodwaters overtook the camp on July 4, as the Guadalupe River rose to historic levels.

At Camp Mystic, the threat wasn’t just from the river — but also from Cypress Creek, which meets the Guadalupe within the 725-acre camp.

As The Post explains, the current from the creek was so forceful it likely reversed the flow of the Guadalupe, causing the water to spread wider and move uphill — reaching cabins both within and beyond high-risk flood zones.

That same surge created a swirl around two cabins — “Bubble Inn” and “The Twins.”

Jeff Carr, a spokesperson for the Eastland family, tells The Post that Dick Eastland received the urgent NWS alert at 1:14 a.m. By 1:35, other family members running the camp were notified and began assessing the situation.

The river’s historic rise began around 2:00 a.m. Evacuations started at approximately 2:30, when the rain showed no signs of letting up.

Dick Eastland died while trying to evacuate Bubble Inn. No one from that cabin has been found alive.

His youngest son, Edward Eastland, managed to evacuate The Twins. According to The Post, he was later found clinging to a tree with 10–12 campers — all of whom survived.