As hope dims for finding survivors, questions are swirling around whether the emergency plan Camp Mystic laid out was adequate. Texas does not approve or keep copies of such plans; camps are only required to show they have a plan in place.

Texas inspectors verified that Camp Mystic had a written emergency plan just two days before the devastating flood killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.

When tragedies are in the news — natural disasters, plane crashes, fires — parents naturally and unavoidably react by thinking about what might happen to their own children. And children worry in turn about what might happen to them.