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The very qualities that draw people to the beautiful Texas Hill Country — rolling terrain, limestone formations and lazy rivers — also make the area deadly during heavy rainstorms.

That includes 40 adults and 28 children. Ten girls from Camp Mystic are still missing, along with one counselor.

Central Texas is one of the most dangerous regions in the U.S. for flash flooding. Here’s why.

Jane Ragsdale grew up attending the camp, then became its co-owner and director.

Greta Toranzo was one of more than two dozen girls from a Kerr County summer camp who were still unaccounted for more than a day after catastrophic floodwaters inundated the region, leaving dozens dead.

Friends and former campers remember Jane Ragsdale, who attended the camp, then became its leader.