Texas floods latest

The rescue team abandoned a devastated central Texas landscape of Mangald trees, overturning cars and silent debris in a fast foggy mission to detect the survivors on Saturday, including 27 girls, which were not slammed with a historic flash flood wall in their camp.

In the Ker County, at least 43 people were killed in the flood, including 15 children, and six more people died in a nearby counties.

Officials still did not say how many people were missing from 27 children of Camp Mistic, a Christian summer camp with a river in Ker County, where most of the dead were recovered.

The destructive, fast -moving water increased 26 feet (8 meters) on the Guadalup river 45 minutes earlier on Friday, to wash homes and vehicles. This danger did not end as torrential rains continued outside San Antonio on Saturday and flash flood warnings and clocks remained effective.

The explorers used helicopters, boats and drones to search for the victims and to save the victims and save people trapped in trees and separated from washed roads.

Gov. Greg Abbott vowed that the authorities would remain tireless and work around the clock to save and fix the victims, saying that new areas were being discovered as water.

“We will find each of them,” he said.

Excess rainfall fell around Austin, and a huge discovery continued in the nearby mountainous country.

At least three people died and 10 other people were missing in the state capital, in Travis County. County Emergency Management Coordinator Derek Marcho said that another fatal confirmation was made in Kendal County, and two people died in Burnett County, where a fire fighter was missing, when he was swept away by flood waters while responding to a rescue, the County Emergency Management Coordinator Derek Rabi said.

Kerville City Manager Dalton Rice said that 43 bodies were so far recovered in the devastated hill country: 28 adults and 15 children.

The officials were coming under the scrutiny of the investigation of whether unprotected camps and residents were given proper warnings for prolonged floods and whether adequate preparations were made.

The hills on the banks of the Gwadalup River in Central Texas are placed with centenary old young camps and campgrounds, where generations of families have come to swim and enjoy outside. The region is particularly popular around the fourth holiday of July, making it more difficult to know how many missing.

Rice said on Saturday, “We don’t even want to start to guess at this time.”

“The camp was completely destroyed,” said Eleinor Leaster, one of the 13 -year -old campers. “A helicopter landed and started taking people away. It was really scary.”

The incredible amount of humidity surrounded by humidity awakened his cabin after midnight on Friday, and when the rescue teams arrived, they tied a rope to catch the girls as they walked around their feet with a bridge around their feet, he said.

The frantic parents and families posted pictures of the arguments for missing loved ones and information.

The camp was mostly deserted on Saturday. Some people raised the helicopters up to survey the damage, including a pickup and a building on its side had disappeared its entire front wall.

Among those who were killed among those who were killed were an 8 -year -old girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama, in Camp Mystic, and director of another camp above the road.

The floods in the middle of the night surprised many residents, campers and officials.

Accuweather said that private forecast company and National Meteorological Service sent warnings about potential flash floods already.

“These warnings should have provided enough time to vacate camps like camps and protect people,” Accuweather said in a statement. It called a hill country one of the most flash-flood-ground areas of America due to its territory and many water crossings.

Officials defended their actions, saying that they did not expect such intense decline, equal to months of rain for the region.

US rape. Chip Roy, which includes the destroyed area in the district, called it a one-time century flood and admitted that there would be another estimate and finger-points because people look at someone to blame someone.

“Many people are saying why and how, and I think,” Roy said.

Rice said the search employees were facing harsh conditions, while “looking at every possible place,” Rice said.

Officials said more than 850 people were rescued in the last 36 hours and there were brave efforts in the camps to save the children.

Homeland’s Security Secretary Christie NoM arrived and pledged that the Trump administration would use all available resources. Coast Guard helicopters and aircraft were helping to ensure that operations could continue even in the dark.

A renovation center in a primary school was mostly quiet after taking hundreds of withdrawals a day earlier.

Bobby Templetton, Superintendent of the Indian Independent School District, said, “We still have people looking for their loved ones. We have got some success, but not much.”

In Ingram, Erin Burges tharant and rain in the middle of the night. Exactly 20 minutes later, the water was putting in his house, he said. He described the hour sticking to a tree with his teenage son.

“My son and I floated on a tree where we were hung on it, and my lover and my dog ​​went away. He was lost for a while, but we found them,” he said.

Barry Edelman said that Pani pushed everyone into the attic in his three -storey house, including his 94 -year -old grandmother and 9 -year -old grandson.

He said, “I was looking at my grandson on the face and telling him that everything was going to be alright, but I was afraid of death,” he said.

Local people know the place as “Flash Flood Ale”.

“When it rains, the water does not absorb in the soil,” said Austin Dixon, CEO of the Community Foundation, Texas Hill Country, who was collecting donations. “It runs down from the hill.”

The weekend forecast had called for rain, in which the flood watch was upgraded to a warning for at least 30,000 people on Friday.

Rob Kelly, Judge of County, the chief elected officer of the county, said, “We know that we find rain.

County had considered a flood warning system on a river similar to a tornado warning siren about six or seven years ago, but Kelly said that the idea never got away from the ground and the cost would have been an issue.

Kelly said that she was heartbroken after seeing the destruction on the body bag and the ground in the funeral house during a helicopter tour.

He said, “Along with rescue, rescue can be expected. Now is getting time for recovery,” he said. “And this is going to be a long, toilet work for us.”