Texas floods: At least 13 dead and more than 20 children are missing

Miserable social media appeals full of observation, as their loved ones sought any information available on the people who fell in the flood.

Lieutenant Dan Patrick said somewhere between 6 and 10 bodies that have been found so far in the frantic search for the victims. Meanwhile, during a press conference held at the same time by Patrick’s update, Kiir County Sharif Larry La Betha reported that there were 13 deaths from floods.

At least 10 inches (25 cm) of rain was poured during the night in the Central Count, causing the floods of the Guadalobi River and leading to desperate appeals to obtain information about the missing.

“Some of them are adults, some of whom are children,” Patrick said at a press conference. “Once again, we don’t know where these bodies came from.”

The teams conducted dozens of rescue operations, and the respondents continued to search for those who were missing. This includes more than 20 missing girls from summer camps.

Patrick said: “I ask the people of Texas, and do some serious prayer this afternoon,” Patrick said.

The comments on a Facebook post from the CARE County Office were full of pictures of people in the flood area. I love loved ones there, hoping that someone would be able to update the location of those who have not heard of them. One of the women said that she could not reach her daughter, who rented a cabin in the search for her husband and two children, and she appealed to someone to publish the names of those who were already evacuated.

Judge Rob Kelly, chief official in the province, confirmed the deaths of floods and dozens of water rescue operations so far. He said that he advised not to cite specific numbers and said that the authorities are still working to identify those who lost their lives.

“Most of them, we don’t know who they are,” Kelly said at a press conference. “One of them was completely naked, he had no identifier at all. We are trying to get the identity of these people, but we don’t have it yet.”

One family survives a terrifying ordeal

Erin Burges is located directly from the river in the Bue Bee Hills neighborhood, west of Ingram. When I woke up to thunder at 3:30 am on Friday, “she was raining very much, but there is no big deal,” she said.

Just 20 minutes later, Burgis said that the water comes across the walls and rushed through the front and rear doors. She described a painful watch clinging to a tree and waited for water to recede enough so that they could walk at the top of the hill to one of the neighbors.

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

“Fortunately, it is more than 6 feet long. This is the only thing that saved me, he was commenting on,” said Borgis of her 19 -year -old son.

The flood monitoring of Thursday afternoon was estimated to be isolated amounts of 7 inches (17 cm) of ascending water. This has turned into a warning of the floods for at least 30,000 people overnight.

When asked about the surprise surprise of the floods, Kelly said, “We have no warning system” and that “we did not know that this flood is coming,” although local reporters referred to warnings and pushed him to obtain answers about the reason why no more precautions were taken.

He said: “Be reassuring, no one knew that this type of flood was coming.” “We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the state was providing resources for the societies of Hill Rifi that deals with floods, including in Kurville, Eingram and Hunt.

Texas Hill Country, a stunning and rocky gateway to the prosperous chrome farms and holiday leasing, west of the state capital and is a famous outdoor smuggler. Parts of the area are vulnerable to floods.

Dozens of people who have been posted on Facebook seek any information about their children, their children and his nephews who attend one of the numerous camps in the region, or family members who went to camp during the weekend.

Ingram’s extinguishing department published a picture of a statement from the Mestic camp, saying that the special Christian summer camp for girls witnessed “catastrophic flat floods”. The camp said that parents who have a daughter have not been calculated are contacted directly.

Two other camps on the river, a camp, the demar Instagram The posts that were safe.

The Guadalobi River in the non -included, where the Forex River recorded a 22 -foot (6.7 meters) in just about two hours, according to Bob VoGartiti, the meteorologist at the Austin/Saint Antonio office in national weather service. Voogartiti said the scale failed after registering the level of 29 and a half feet (9 meters).

“This is the type of thing that will lead to your lack of knowledge,” said Vogartiti. “The water moves very quickly, you will not know how bad it is until you are above you.”

The eastern regions along the Guadalpe River were preparing for their floods, as fast water rushed towards the Hunt and Kervian stream. In Kendall County, the home of the unworthy comfort community, the Sharif office appeared.

“We regret that everyone informs that placing the flood in comfort does not improve,” I read the post. “We started sirens in floods and urged all the population in the city’s low areas to evacuate.”

New Jersey also sees deaths due to the harsh weather

Meanwhile, at least a strong thunderstorm was blamed in three deaths in the center of New Jersey, including two men in Plinfield who died after a tree fell on a car where they were traveling during the height of the storm there, according to a Facebook post in the city.

The officials said the men were between the ages of 79 and 25 years. They were not immediately determined publicly.

“Our hearts are heavy today,” Mayor Adrian or Map said in a statement. “This tragedy is a realistic reminder of the power of nature and the fragility of life.”

The city canceled its schemes, the fourth of July, the concert and fireworks exhibition. Map said that the “destroyed” storms had left “deep scars and widespread damages” in a society of more than 54,000 people, and the time for “re -assembling our ranks and focusing all our energy on recovery was.

The continuous power outages and trees that were dropped on Friday were reported throughout the southern New England, where some societies have received large amounts of cold. There were reports on the road skiing cars in the northeast of Connecticut.