AUSTIN, Texas — As storms approached last July, Camp Mystic Executive Director Dick Eastland checked a variety of weather apps to gauge how severe the storms were expected to be. 

Investigators who displayed those web search records Monday, however, also said the storms were approaching a camp with inadequate disaster plans and college-aged counselors who received no drills, no procedures and did not even have radios, walkie-talkies, or phones to call for help.

"That's just unthinkable that these girls would have no training," said attorney Casey Garrett, who has conducted a months-long investigation of what happened and when at the Christian girls camp along the Guadalupe River. "There was a shelter-in-place plan. There was no evacuation plan for when sheltering in place was no longer viable," Garrett said of written instructions that advised campers to stay in their cabins unless otherwise instructed.

Garrett's presentation to a joint state House and Senate flood investigating committee included new photos and evidence, including photos of Bubble Inn, one of the cabins Eastland was trying to reach in his SUV. The water line would eventually reach all the way to the ceiling.

"These are the occupants of Bubble Inn," Garrett said, showing a photo with the girls and their counselors. "Every single person in this photograph died in the river that evening."

Eastland made three rescue attempts. His vehicle, with his body and three of the girls inside, was found 100 yards downriver.

"This was heroic, no question about it," Garrett said of other rescue attempts where young girls were passed through another cabin window to safety. "I mean, and they needed to get to higher ground. It wasn't a plan. It wasn't a safe plan."

Investigators also played partial interviews with survivors, two young girls swept a mile downstream who came to rest on a debris pile and were eventually rescued when neighbors heard their screams.

"We all fell out of the window, and the water started rushing in, and I went underwater and almost drowned," the young girl said. "And thought I was going to die."

"I'm struggling with competing emotions of sadness and anger right now," said committee vice-chair Rep. Joe Moody.

This hearing of the joint House and Senate investigating committee is the next step in assigning blame and identifying solutions. Camp Mystic, although facing multiple civil lawsuits, has proposed reopening a portion of the camp this summer. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is urging that the camp's operating permit be denied. And as recently as last week, state regulators informed the camp that its emergency plan, even now, is deficient.

"There was a deep failure, a profound failure," Garrett added of the local, county, and state response to the disaster, calling it a "shocking delay of resources being deployed."

She says that parents, lacking answers, began posting pictures of their children online, asking anyone with information to call. That, Garrett said, led to disturbing "prank" phone calls that continue to this day. Camper Cile Steward still has not been found.

"The misinformation added so much torment and despair to these parents. And it could have been prevented," she said, if a central clearing house or command center had been put in place sooner to do that search work for the parents instead.  "It was a failure it should have been much more coordinated."

"We are hungry. We are hungry for this committee to do your thing," Garrett said to the committee. "You're powerful people that can answer this call to action, and every single person in this room and listening are hungry for that action."

Testimony continues on Tuesday, including parents of the young girls.