Kerrville, Texas (AP)-Families via water debris were criticized on Sunday and entered into an empty cabin in mystic camp, a summer camp of girls, torn due to the sudden floods that washed their homes from their foundations and killed at least 79 people in the center of Texas.
The rescuers continued through difficult terrain, high water and snakes, including water motors, their desperate search for missing persons, including 10 girls and a consultant from the camp. For the first time since the storms began to bomb Texas, state governor Greg Abbott said that there were 41 people who have been confirmed that they were not confined all over the state and may be more missing.
In the Care County, the home of Camp Mestic and other youth camps in Texas Hill Control, researchers found the bodies of 68 people, including 28 children.
He pledged to continue the search until “everyone was found” from Friday floods. Ten missed deaths were reported in Travis, Burnett, Kindle, Tom Green and Williamson provinces, according to local officials. Colonel Freeman Martin of the Ministry of Public Safety in Texas said that the death toll will rise over the next few days.
The ruler has warned that additional rounds of heavy rains that last Tuesday can produce more life -threatening floods, especially in already saturated places. While he spoke at a press conference in Austin, emergency alerts ignited mobile phones in CARE province, which warned of “high confidence in the river flood” and a loudspeaker near the Mystic camp urging people to leave. Minutes later, the authorities said at the scene that there is no danger.
Families were allowed to look around the camp that starts on Sunday morning. One girl came out of a building with a large bell. A man, who said that his daughter was rescued from a cabin on the highest point in the camp, walked on the bank of a river, looking into blocks of trees and under large rocks.
A teenage woman and girl, both of whom wearing rubber floods, went shortly to one of the cabins, which was standing next to a pile of crucified ranks, storage trunk and clothes. At one point, the husband doubles, and he cries before embracing it.
One family left with a blue infantry. She was a teenage girl whose tears on her face were looking at the open window, staring at the debris while walking slowly.
Search in the disaster area
While the families saw the destruction for the first time, the nearby crews that manage heavy equipment withdrew tree trunks and interlocking branches from the water while researching the river.
With every hour, expectations to find more survivors have become more dark. The volunteers and some missing families who traveled to the disaster area searched the banks of the river despite their demand not to do so.
The authorities have faced increasing questions about whether sufficient warnings were issued in a long -term flood area and whether the preparations are sufficient.
President Donald Trump signed a major disaster declaration on Sunday for CARE, as he activated the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Texas.
The president said he was likely to visit on Friday. “I was going to do that day, but we’ll only be on their way,” he told reporters before they returned to Washington after spending the weekend at the Golf Club in Pedmintster, New Jersey. “It is a terrible thing that happened, very terrible.”
The destroyed rapidly 26 feet (8 meters) water rose on the river in just 45 minutes before Friday, washing homes and vehicles. The danger did not end with the valid Flash Flood watches and more rains fell in central Texas on Sunday.
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. Officials said more than 850 people were rescued in the first 36 hours.
Prayers in Texas – and from the Vatican
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.”
In Rome, Pope Liu fourteenth provided special prayers for those who touched the disaster. The first American Pope in history in English spoke at the end of Sunday, “I would like to express sincere condolences to all the families that we lost our loved ones, especially their daughters who were in the summer camp, in the catastrophe caused by the flood of the Guadalpe River in Texas in the United States.”
The hills move along the Guadalobi River with the youth camps dating back to a century where generations of families came to swim and enjoy the open air. The region is especially popular around the Independence Day, which makes it difficult to know the number of missing persons.
A terrible escape from flood water
The survivors shared terrifying stories about getting away and clinging to trees while exciting flood water was carrying trees and cars behind them. Others fled to the headlines inside their homes, and the water would not reach them.
In CAMP Mystic, a cabin filled with girls detained with a rope involved by rescuers walking through a bridge with water wandering around their legs.
Among those confirmed, she was a 8 -year -old girl from Mountain Brock, Alabama, she was in Mestic camp, and another camp manager on the road.
Two school -age sisters were missing after the cabin was clouded. Their parents were staying in a different compartment and were safe, but the grandparents of girls did not suffer from it.
Local population knows that “Hill County” is the “Flash Flood”, but the flood in the middle of the night discovered many camps and residents despite the presence of warnings.
The warnings came before the disaster
On Thursday, the National Weather Service advised potential floods and then sent a series of failed 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.
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 a day before ending 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.
Dalton Rice, director of the city of Kerville, said that the authorities are committed to a full review of the emergency cases, including how the public is alerting to threatening the storm.
“We can talk about it later, but we are now busy with work.” He previously said that he wanted to repair it if he was not completely eliminating Fema and was sharply criticizing her performance.
Trump was also asked whether he intends to rehabilitate any federal meteorological specialist who was separated this year as part of widespread government spending discounts.
The president said: “I don’t think so. This was something that happened in seconds. No one expected it. No one saw it. Very talented there, and they did not see it.”
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Siwier from Toledo, Ohio. Contribution to this report was the Associated Press Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Tennessee; Cedar Atanasio in New York; Sofia Terrin in Chicago; Michelle Price in Morestown, New Jersey; Nicole Winfield in Rome.