The extent of the speed of moving the floods across the center of Texas

The warning signs were already flashing as hundreds of young people celebrated the fourth public holiday in the Mystic camp, a Christian summer retreat for girls, located on the banks of the Guadalopy River in Texas.

There was no rain in the area recently until immersion, when the river rose 26 feet (8m) in less than an hour, according to state officials.

By Saturday evening, at least 51 people died, including 15 children.

The first hint of the destruction that occurred on Thursday morning, as rain and thunderstorms were flooded with a number of provinces in central Texas.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a joint warning called the flood watch at 13:18 in the afternoon of that day for parts of the region, including the Care County.

In the early hours of Friday, expectations became more clear as NWS issued a series of promotion warnings. The San Saba River, the Concho River and the Colorado River were rising.

At 04.03, NWS sent a “particularly dangerous mode” alert, dedicated to the most urgent scenarios that are likely to be deadly like forest fires.

Another warning was issued for a “particularly dangerous situation” for Kurveille on 05.34, before dawn on Friday.

“The population and the camp must strive to get higher land now! It is expected that life -threatening floods along the river will expect.”

“Mechanical rain standards indicate that the large and deadly flood wave moves below the Guadalobi River. Flash flooding has already occurs.”

Such alerts are shared on NWS social media accounts and through broadcasting news outlets, but most people were asleep.

Ellinor Leicester, 13, said that the youngest camp at Camp Mestic was crushed in a cabin near the river bank and that they were the first to immerse.

“The camp was completely destroyed,” Ellinor, who was evacuated by a helicopter, told Associated Press. “It was really scary.”

Outside Kerrville, BBC met with Jonathan and Betani Rojas, where they came to see the rest of the relative’s house. The foundations remain only.

Five people at home were the night of the flood – the mother and her child were still missing.

The teenage son, Liu, survived after he was exposed to him in the barbed wire, preventing him from getting away. The boy recovers in the hospital.

Since the BBC was an interview with Rojas’s couple, one of the neighbors walked to present it with an element saved from the house.

The jar was in the teenager. Read the name on it, “Survival of Liu”.

The desperate mystical parents took social media in search of the news of their children.

Facebook – Kerrville Breaking News has turned into a page of missing persons.

Since then, some parents have updated their social media appeals to say that their missing family members have not survived.

Kerr County is located in the heart of Texas Hill Country, a festival destination due to its scenic circulating hills, uninterrupted rivers and lakes.

But the region is also known as the “Flash Flood Alley”, due to the frequent threat that has destroyed communities over the years.

When asked why the Riferside Summer Camp was not evacuated, the officials said that the sudden volume of the flood was discovered by unaware.

“No one knew that this type of flood was coming,” said Kiir Rob Kelly Province.