Kurville, Texas (AP)-Rescuers collected a scene in the midst of the devastating Texas from deformed trees, revised cars and the exit drain on Saturday on a growing mission to determine the location of the survivors, including 27 girls who have not been seen since their camp was shown with a water wall in a historical flood.
Floods in CARE County were killed at least 43 people, including 15 children, and at least eight people died in nearby provinces.
The authorities have not yet said the number of people who were missing outside the children from the Mystic camp, a Christian summer camp along a river in the Care County where most of the dead were recovered.
The rapidly destroyed water rose 26 feet (8 meters) on the Guadalpe River in just 45 minutes of dawn on Friday, and washing homes and vehicles. The danger did not end, as the rains continued to bomb societies outside San Antonio on Saturday, and warnings and watches remaining valid.
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.
The governor of the state, Greg Abbott, pledged that the authorities would work around the clock and said that the new areas were searched with a decline in water. On Sunday, the day of prayer for the state was announced.
He said in a statement, “I urge all Texas to join me in prayer this Sunday – because the lost spirits, for those who are still missing, in order to restore our societies, and for security on the front lines.”
The authorities were scrutinized on whether the camps and residents were in long cross -flooding places had received an appropriate warning and whether enough preparations were made.
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 do not even want to start appreciation at this time,” said Dalton Rice, director of Kerville City earlier.
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.”
The raging storm, which is fueled by incredible amounts of moisture, woke up its cabin after midnight on Friday. She said that when the rescuers arrived, they tied a rope with girls to keep them walking through a bridge with water wandering around their legs.
Parents and families have published pictures of missing loved ones and appeals to obtain information.
Among those confirmed, the 8 -year -old was from Mountain Brock, Alabama, she was in Mestic camp, and another camp manager on the road.
The floods in the middle of the night caught many residents, camp and officials by surprise.
Accuweather said that the private prediction company and national weather service have sent warnings about the possible flood hours in the floods in advance.
“These warnings should have been sufficient time to evacuate the camps such as Camp Mystic and make people to safety,” Accuweather said in a statement. The Hill Country was described as one of the most vulnerable areas in the United States due to terrain and many water crossings.
In the MO-Ranch camp in the Hunt community, officials were watching the weather and chose to transport several hundred of the camp and attendees at a youth conference in the church to a higher land. In nearby camps, Rio Vista and Sierra Vista, the organizers also stated on social media that they were watching the weather the day before the penetration at their second summer session on Thursday.
Elected authorities and officials said that they do not expect such intense heavy rains, which is equivalent to rain from the most famous in the region.
American MP Cheeb Roy, who includes his area in the destroyed area, described it as one time in the century and admitted that there will be a secondary guess and the formation of fingers while people search for a person who blames him.
Helicopter planes and drones used in feverish search
Rice said the search crews are facing harsh conditions while “searching for every possible site.”
Officials said more than 850 people have been rescued during the past 36 hours and there were heroic efforts in the camps to save children.
The Minister of Internal Security, Christie sleep, has pledged to use the Trump administration all available resources. The helicopters and the coast guard planes helped ensure the continuing operations even in the dark.
One of the consequences was of mostly a calm elementary school after they 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.
People clung to the trees and fled to the bonds
In Ingram, Erine Burgis woke up to thunder and rain in the middle of the night. 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.”
Local residents know the place as “Flash Flood”.
“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.”
“He didn’t see this next”
The weekend expectations were called for rain, while monitoring the floods that were promoted to warn Friday night for at least 30,000 people.
“We know that we are getting rain. We know that the river is rising. But no one saw this coming,” said Care Rob Kelly province, the elected province, said.
The boycott in a flood warning system looked at the river similar to the sirens that warned the hurricane about six or seven years ago, but Kelly said that the idea was not running out of the ground and that the cost was an issue.
Kelly said he was sad in seeing body bags at the funeral home and destroying the ground during the helicopter round.
“The rescue has gone as it can be expected. It is now time to recover,” he said. “This will be a long and warm task for us.”
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Cortez mentioned from Hunt, Texas, and Seeweer from Tolido, Ohio. The Associated Press Susan Haig in Hartford, Connecticut, and Susan Monteoya Brian contributed to Boukirk, New Mexico.