Kerrvilla, Texas (AP) – Fierce for 27 missing girls, desperate discovery on Sunday provoked a third day after flood waters A summer camp increased Since the rescue teams maneuver through the challenging area, Texas was asked to pray that any remaining people will be available.
With most of the deaths in Ker County in the state’s hill country, at least 51 people, including 15 children, were killed. In addition to 43 dead in Ker County, there were four deaths in Travis, three in Burnett and 1 in Kendall.
The rescue teams were dealt with in a difficult task to find broken trees, overturned cars and leftover debris. Officials still did not say how many people were missing from the children of a Christian summer camp, Camp Mistic, a Christian summer camp with the Gwadalupa River in Ker County, where most of the dead were recovered.
Disastrous, rapid water On Friday, 45 minutes earlier on Friday, washing 26 feet (8 m) roses, houses and vehicles on the river in just 45 minutes. The danger did not end because at least one flash flood warning was effective in Central Texas on Sunday.
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 officials would work around the clock and said that new areas were being discovered as water. He Declared The day of prayer for the state on Sunday.
He said in a statement, “I urge every Texon to join the prayer on this Sunday – for the lost people, who are still missing, for the recovery of our communities, and to protect those on the lines of the front,” he said in a statement.
Pope Leo XIV made special prayers for those touched by disaster. The first American Pope of history talked in English at the end of his Sunday afternoon blessings, “I would like to express sincere condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones, especially in their daughters who were in the summer camp, especially in the summer camps, in the United States in the United States, in the United States in the United States.
Officers were coming under investigation whether camps and residents for a long time Unsecured for flood Proper warning was received and whether adequate preparations were made.
The hills on the banks of the Gwadalup River have been placed with centenary old youth camps and campgrounds, where generations of families have come to swim and enjoy outside. This region is particularly popular around the Independence Day holiday, making it more difficult to know how much missing.
“We also don’t want to start to guess at this time,” Kerville City Manager Dalton Rice said earlier.
Razing Storm killed the camp in the middle of the night
“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.”
Furious storm, fuel Huge amount of moistureAroused his cabin after midnight of Friday. When the rescue teams arrived, they tied a rope to catch the girls as they went across a bridge with water around their feet, he said.
The frantic parents and families posted pictures of the arguments for missing loved ones and information.
Among the people who were killed, Mountain Brook was an 8 -year -old girl from Alabama, who was in Camp Mystic, and the director of another camp on 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 evacuate camps like camps and people for safety,” accuweather said in a statement. It called The Hill Country one of the most flash-flood-ground areas in America due to its territory and many water crossings.
At the MO-Rancha camp in the Hunt community, the authorities were monitoring the weather and the youth conference of a church opted to take several hundred campers and attendees to high land. In nearby camps Rio Vista and Sierra Vista, the organizers also mentioned on social media that they were looking at the weather a day before ending their second summer session on Thursday.
Officers and elected officials have said 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.
Helicopters and drones are used in frantic search
Rice said that “looking at every possible place” search staff faced harsh conditions.
Officials said more than 850 people were rescued in the last 36 hours, with brave efforts in camps to save 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 also assisting to ensure the ongoing operations in the dark.
A renovation center in a primary school was mostly quiet after taking hundreds of withdrawals a day earlier.
“We are still looking for our loved ones. We have got some success, but not much.”
People clung to trees and ran for attack
In Ingram, Erin Burges woke up for thunder and rain in the middle of the night. Only 20 minutes later, water was poured into his house, he said, describing an 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 to this area ” Flash Flood Street. ,
“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.”
‘Nobody saw this’
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.
“Along with rescue -it can be expected. It is now getting time for recovery,” he said. “And this is going to be a long, toilet work for us.”
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Cortease reported sewer from Hunt, Texas and TOLDE, Ohio. Associated Press Writors in Hartford contributed by Susan High, Connecticut, Susan Montya Bryan in Albuquerk, New Mexico and Nicole Winfield in Rome.
Jim Wartuno, Julio Cortage and John Sewer, Associated Press
