The thunder and lighting came to Camp Mystic first, but that was normal. The storm and the driving rain at the Texas camp woke up some of the campers, including Georgia and Eloise Jones, at about 1 a.m. on July 4. At first the pair thought nothing of it, they told ABC News. After all, it had been raining on and off for days.

Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.