Texas Sen. Ted Cruz admitted Monday that authorities wish they had evacuated Camp Mystic sooner as flooding walloped the region, creating “every parent’s nightmare’’ — as the state’s total death toll hit 89.
“We would evacuate those in the vulnerable areas, such as younger children in the cabins, we would evacuate them sooner and get them to higher ground if we could go back,” Cruz said at a press briefing in Kerr County, the hardest-hit area of Texas Hill Country and home to the famed camp for young girls.
But Cruz said he still didn’t want “partisan finger-pointing and attacks” in the wake of the flooding.
Describing the disaster as “every parent’s nightmare,” Cruz called for Texans to come together in the wake of the tragedy.
“For many of us, these are friends and neighbors who have lost children,” he said.
The camp’s death toll is now at 27.
But 10 more girls and one camp counselor are still missing from Camp Mystic after flooding on the Guadalupe River, Sen. Cruz said.
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