Kurville, Texas (AP) – Camp Mestic says it “is saddened by the loss” of 27 of the camp and the consultants with the continuation of the search on Monday due to the catastrophic flood victims during the weekend of the fourth week of July.
The statement adds another layer of sorrow to the destroyed floods that sent a wall of water during the summer camp dating back to a century.
The camp said in a statement published on its website: “We were in contact with the local and state authorities that are deployed tirelessly to search for our missing girls,” the camp said in a statement posted on its website. “We are very grateful for the flow of support from society, the first respondents and officials at every level.”
With more rains on the road, life -threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday, even with the crews urgently searching for missing persons after the weekend, which killed more than 80 people. The officials said that the death toll was certain.
Residents of the Care County began to purify the clay and save their power that were destroyed while they were narrated a horrific escape from the water that was late on Friday.
Reagan Brown said his parents, in the eighties, were able to escape from the arduous as the water was flooded in the town of Hunt. When the couple learned that their 92 -year -old neighbor was besieged in the attic, they returned and saved it.
“After that they managed to reach their tools higher than the ground, and the neighbors began early in the morning to appear in their tools, and they all ran together,” Brown said.
A few miles away, rescuers who pass through the difficult terrain filled with snakes continued their search for missing persons, including from the Mystic camp, a summer camp for all girls to huge damage. On Sunday afternoon, more than two days after the flood tort the camp, the authorities said that some girls and consultants have not yet been found.
The governor of the state, Greg Abbott, said on Sunday that 41 people were not calculated throughout the state and could be more missing.
In the Hill Control area, the home of many summer camps, researchers found the bodies of 68 people, including 28 children, said Sharif Care Larry La Betha.
Ten missed deaths were reported in Travis, Burnett, Kindle, Tom Green and Williamson provinces, according to local officials.
The ruler has warned that additional rounds of heavy rains that last Tuesday can produce more dangerous floods, especially in already saturated places.
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 whose daughter was rescued from a cabin on the highest point in the camp is a river bank, looking into blocks of trees and under large rocks.
One family left with a blue infantry. She was a teenage girl who was tear on her face slowly away from the open window at the debris.
Search in the disaster area
The nearby crews that occupy heavy equipment pulled tree trunks and interlocking branches from the river. With every hour, expectations to find more survivors have become more dark.
The volunteers and some of the missing families came to the disaster area and searched 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 announcement of a disaster on Sunday for CARE and said he could visit on Friday.
“It is a terrible thing that happened, very terrible,” he told reporters.
Prayers in Texas – and from the Vatican
Abbott pledged that the authorities would work around the clock and said that the new areas are searched as water declining. On Sunday, the day of prayer for the state was announced.
In Rome, Pope Liu fourteenth provided special prayers for those who touched the disaster. The first American Pope in English spoke at the end of Sunday his back, saying: “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 disaster caused by the flooding of the Godalabi River in Texas in the United States.”
Desperate shelter, trees and charts
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, and prayed water will 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.
The warnings came before the disaster
On Thursday, the national weather service advised potential floods and then sent a series of sudden 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.
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 the authorities are committed to a full review of the emergency response.
“We can talk about it later, but we are now busy with work.” He said he wanted comprehensive reform if he did not completely remove FEMA and criticize her performance sharply.
Trump was also asked whether he intends to rehabilitate any federal meteorological specialist who was expelled 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.