Texas flood: 14 children out of 37 people so far

About 36 hours after the floods, the authorities were not less than the number of people who lost 27 children from the Mystic camp, a Christian summer camp along a river in Kiir Province, where most of the dead were recovered.

the The destroyed water is fast -moving 26 feet (8 meters) rose on the Guadalpe River in just 45 minutes on Friday, washing homes and vehicles. The danger did not end, as the heavy rains continued to bomb societies outside San Antonio on Saturday, and warnings and watches of a valid flash flood remained.

Researchers used helicopters, boats and drones to search for victims and save people who were cut off in trees and from isolated camps through washed roads.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pledged that the authorities would be unabated in saving and restoring victims. He said: “We will find each of them.”

The number of victims increased with more rain around Austin and the huge research continued in the country of the near hill. At least three people and 10 others who were missing died in the province of Travis, the home of the state capital.

Derik Marchio Emergency Coordinator Derek Marsio said that two people died in Burant Province, where a firefighter was among the missing after he was swept through the flood water while responding to a rescue operation.

Sharif Care Larry Laitha Province said that the bodies of 32 people have been recovered so far in the country of the devastating hill: 18 adults and 14 children.

The authorities were subject to increased scrutiny over whether the camps and residents were in long places Vulnerable Receive an appropriate warning and whether the preparations are sufficient.

The hills fall along the Guadalobi River in central Texas with youth camps dating back to a century and camps where generations of families came to swim and enjoy the open air. The region is especially popular on the July Fourth holiday, which makes it difficult to know the number of missing persons.

“We don’t even want to start appreciation at this time,” said City Director Dalton Rice on Saturday morning.

The storm was struck in the middle of the night

“The camp has been completely destroyed,” said Ellinor Leicester, 13, one of the hundreds of the camp. “A helicopter landed and began to take people away. It was really scary.”

An raging storm that feeds it Incredible quantities of moisture She said that she woke up from her cabin immediately after the midnight of Friday, and when the rescuers arrived, they tied a rope with the girls walking through a bridge with the water wandering in their legs.

Parents and families have published pictures of missing loved ones and appeals to obtain information.

On Saturday, the camp was mostly deserted. The helicopters chanted over it, as a few people looked at the damage, including a pickup truck threw on its side and a building that loses its entire front wall.

Among those confirmed, the 8 -year -old was from Mountain Brock, Alabama, she was staying in Mestic camp, and another camp manager on the road.

In the middle of the night, the flood caught many residents, camp and officials, by surprise in Hill Control, northwest of San Antonio.

Accuweather said that the private prediction company and national weather service sent warnings about possible flood hours before destruction.

“These warnings should have been provided to officials with time to evacuate camps like Camp Mystic and make people to safety,” Accuweather said in a statement called Hill Country and one of the areas most offered by Flash-Flood in the United States because of its terrain and many water crossings.

The national weather service sent a series of sudden flood warnings in the early hours of Friday before the issuance of emergency cases in the floods – a rare alert that comes to an imminent danger.

The officials defended their actions while they said that they did not expect such intense heavy rains that were equivalent to rains of the most famous months of the region.

Nim Kid, head of the Emergency Management Department in Texas, said that one of the national weather forecasts earlier in the week “did not expect the amount of rain we saw.”

Helicopter planes, drones used in feverish search for missing

Rice said the search crews are facing harsh conditions while “searching for every possible site.”

The authorities said that about 850 people were rescued. American Coast Guard helicopters fly for help.

One of the consequences was a reunification at a calm elementary school mostly on Saturday after he took hundreds of people who were evacuated the day before.

“We still have people who come here looking for their loved ones. We have achieved little success, but not much,” said Bobby Templeton, the supervisor of the independent boycott of schools.

The Minister of Internal Security, Christie sleep, has pledged to use the Trump administration all available resources.

The population clung to the trees, fled to the headlines

In Ingram, Erine Burgis woke up to thunder and rain in the middle of the night on Friday. After only 20 minutes, the water was flowing to her home. She was described as a painful watch clinging to a tree with her teenage son.

She said: “My son and I have been subjected to a tree where I was stuck to it, and my friend and my father floated. He was lost for a while, but we found it.”

Barry Adeleman said that the water pushed everyone in his three -storey home to the attic, including his 94 -year -old grandmother and his 9 -year -old grandson.

He said: “I had to look at my grandson in his face and told him that everything would be fine, but inside I was afraid to death.”

The local resident is known as “” Flash Flood Alley. ”

“When it rains, the water is not divided into the soil,” said Austin Dixon, CEO of the Community Corporation at Texas Hill Control, who was collecting donations. “It rushes to the bottom of the hill.”

“No one knew that this type of flood was coming.”

The expectations for the weekend had called for rain, while observing the floods that were promoted to warn Friday night for at least 30,000 people. Texas Governor Dan Patrick said the possibility of heavy rains covering a large area.

“Everything has been done to give them heads that could suffer from heavy rains, and we are not completely sure of the place where it will start,” Patrick said. “It is clear when the darkness became last night, we got to the first morning of the hours, when the storm started in zero.”

“We do not have a warning system,” said Kiir Rob Kelly province, chief official in the province.

When she was pushed to the reason why more precautions were not taken, Kelly said that no one knows this type of flood is coming.

More pockets of heavy rains expect

Jason Rooney, from the national weather service, said that the slow storm that brought more rains on Saturday and has the possibility of pockets of heavy rains and more floods.

He said that the threat may continue overnight until Sunday morning.