I'm Jason Epperson. This is RV Miles, and it's time for the latest in RV and camping news.

First up, the Texas Association of Campground Owners, or Taco, that is their name,

would like you to know that most of the affected campgrounds from the recent floods in Hill Country

are back in business and ready to take customers.

The organization put out a press release encouraging Labor Day bookings because they're hearing

that people assume Hill Country RV parks were destroyed, but nearly all are open and eager

for business. However, one campground is being sued by the family of a victim of those floods

for negligence.

The family of 22-year-old Jada Floyd, a juvenile probation officer from Odessa, Texas,

has filed a lawsuit against the HTR Chains TX Hill Country Resort, a luxury RV park along

the Guadalupe River, which is still closed. It was pretty

much destroyed in the floods. Jada and 36 others lost their lives at the park during the

catastrophic flooding over the 4th of July weekend. It was the biggest concentration of

deaths during that terrible event. Jada had been camping with her fiancé, Odessa police officer Bailey

Martin, and his family, when floodwater surged through the area in the early morning hours.

As the water rose rapidly, Jada helped Martin's teenage siblings onto the roof of the RV

an act that saved their lives. Tragically, Jada, Bailey, and Bailey's father and stepmother, Bobby and Amanda Martin,

were swept away and killed.

The lawsuit alleges that the resort failed to implement proper storm monitoring,

emergency alerts, and evacuation procedures.

Survivors described waking up to the sound of a car horn escaping in panic as

water rose from ankle to waist level in minutes. Witnesses reported cabins being ripped from

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