A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.

More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.

Camp Mystic executive director Richard “Dick” Eastland did not begin to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins near the rapidly rising Guadalupe River for more than an hour after he received a severe flood warning,