During the summer camp of 1938 a big flood hit the camp.  It was just at the end of the first week of camp, with another week to follow, when a head rise of several feet of water came down Brady Creek.  It all started when one of the Scouts told Guy Quirl, the Camp Director, and said the creek is rising.  He knew some of the Scouts were on the other side of the creek, so he sent a runner to tell them that he wanted them to come to camp in a hurry so they wouldn't get caught on the other side.  They arrived and he had the camp bugler blow assembly in the mess hall.  He told them that they were to stay on high ground on the upper bank.  It wasn't long until a four foot wall of water came down.   The it just kept rising.  He had a feeling that it might get to the mess hall so he ahd the cooks start cooking up all the flour they had into biscuits.  Stanley, the head cook, was putting them in the pans and Tom, the assistant cook, was putting them in the oven and taking them out.   Stanley was singing "River Stay Away From My Back Door"; but Tom was so nervous he could hardly handle the pans.

When it seemed that the water was going to get to the mess hall we moved all the cooking equipment and tents to higher ground.  We were using Army supply field ranges for cooking stoves.  The second day a Coast Guard plane flew over and dropped a message by a little parachute stating that we were to move to higher ground as a flood was coming.

They had sixty-four Scouts, one Scoutmaster, one truck driver, two cooks, and the camp director in camp.  They inventoried their food supply and decided they were in trouble.   The second morning at breakfast the Camp Director took a vote for them to sleep late and have breakfast and lunch at the same time to conserve their food supply.  It rained for five days and nights.

They kept in touch with the outside world with the telephone.  The Coast Guard would fly over each day and they would get out in a clearing and form "O.K." with white camp T-shirts on.  They would report it to the radio station in Brady and the station would broadcast that the camp signaled "O.K." and they could see our fires burning.

The Camp Director got Mr. Roundtree to take a pack horse and go across ranch country to Brady and get bacon, flour, and eggs, etc.  He made two trips for the camp of about 12 miles.

Much of the equipment and buildings at camp were destroyed or damaged to a degree including the old dining hall.  A new one was built with a concrete floor, rock walls and a shingle roof.