By Katie Parkins, Denver7
Coloradan Hillary Conway is a former camper and counselor at Camp Mystic, the epicenter of the deadly Texas flooding last week. The total death toll currently stands at 120, and 173 people remain missing. Among the missing are five children and one counselor from Camp Mystic.
Hillary described to Denver7 the moment she heard the news about what was happening.
“I got a phone call at 5:30 in the morning from my best friend in Amarillo whose daughters were at second term,” Hillary said.
Hillary’s daughter, Alice Rose, was in the first session of Camp Mystic and got back to Colorado just a week before the flooding hit. Hillary and Alice Rose even took a picture with one of the camp’s executive directors and owners Dick Eastland before he died in the natural disaster. Dick and his wife Tweety were the third generation to manage Camp Mystic, which has been in the family since 1939, according to the camp’s website.
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