Scale of destruction at flood-hit Texas summer camp seen from spacepublished at 09:49 British Summer Time
Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist
Image source, Maxar TechnologiesSatellite imagery showing Camp Mystic before the flood (left) and after (right)
New satellite imagery released by specialist space technology firm Maxar shows the extent of the devastation left by the recent floods in Kerr County, Texas, in which more than 100 people have died.
Among the images taken yesterday are several from the Camp Mystic girls’ retreat where at least 27 people are known to have died when flash flooding swept through the site last Friday. The flooding appears to have receded at the time the images were captured but the extent of the damage is clear.
Close-up images of the camp show previously plush, green areas now awash with mud and debris. elsewhere trees have been ripped from the ground and there is damage to some of the camp’s structures.
You can see in the image above that on the left – from 23 June before the flood – there are blue tennis courts at the camp which are not present in the 8 July image on the right.
Hundreds of girls were staying at Camp Mystic when the banks of the Guadalupe River broke. Many of them were sleeping in low-lying cabins a short distance from the river.