Camp staff went to bed following what seemed like routine flood warnings. Within hours, they were fighting for survival. “Chaos struck almost instantaneously.”

Two grandchildren of a former Detroit Free Press publisher and executive editor were among those killed in catastrophic flooding that overtook a girls' camp in Texas. David Lawrence Jr. confirmed his 8-year-old twin granddaughters, Hanna and Rebecca, died in the flooding over the July 4 weekend at Camp Mystic in Texas.

A former camp counselor during the devastating 1987 Texas floods told The Post on Monday that the tragedy was eerily similar to what happened to the young campers on the same river last week. The