The survival of people in local camps and low-lying areas depended not on official evacuations but on whether they were paying attention, on their own, to weather alerts in the middle of the night.

Generations of the same family have operated the summer camp since 1939. It counts family members of former president and governors as alumnae.

Hager and her husband, Henry Hager, send their own three kids to summer camp in Texas. Texas native Jenna Bush Hager shared an emotional reaction on Today to the devastation that occurred over the weekend when flash floods pounded the central part of the state,