Kerrville, Texas (AP) – When the flood water began to retreat from the Mystic camp, a torrent of sadness remained when the identities of some of the camp who died in the sudden floods began to appear on Saturday.
At least 43 people, including 15 children, died in Kiir Province after it fired a storm of approximately (0.3 meters) of rain on Friday and sent flood water flowing from the Guadalobi River across the mountainous region known as its summer camps dating back to a century. Eight people died in the nearby provinces.
State officials said 27 girls from the Mestic camp, a Christian camp on the banks of the river for girls in Hunt, Texas, are still not calculated for 36 hours after flood.
She was a 8 -year -old girl from Mountain Brock, Alabama, who was in Mestic camp, and another camp manager on the road among those who were confirmed on Saturday.
The governor of the state, Greg Abbott, who toured the camp on Saturday with the rescue crews, pledged that the authorities would work around the clock to find missing girls and others in the storm that caught many residents, camp and officials.
Many are still missing, and the authorities said that about 850 people have been rescued so far.
The National Weather Service said that the flood watch will remain valid for the Hill Control area until late on Saturday night.
The flood turns into the Sufi camp into a nightmare
The camp was created in 1926. It has become very common over the following decades so that families are now encouraged to put the potential camp in the waiting list years ago.
The images and videos taken before the flood are perfect, showing a large cabin with green surfaces and names such as “Wigge Inn”, tucked between strong oak trees and trees that grow on the banks of the Guadalobi River. In some social media’s posts, girls hunt fish, horse riding, play kicks, or conduct dance procedures designed to match shirts. Girls between the ages of 8 and 17 are formed in the camera with great smiles, and the arms covered through the shoulders of their fellow camp.
But the flood water that left behind a flagrant natural view: the unstable Beck App truck is balanced in two wheels, and its side in the middle of the road to the tree. The wall is completely torn from one building, and the interior is empty except for the Texas flag and the paintings are hanging along the length of one side. Part of the twisted metal – the frame may be – may be next to the trunks of the colored steamer and the ends of the broken trees.
The first respondents roam the banks of the river in the hope of finding the survivors. Social media publications are now focusing on the faces of the missing.
Campaign emergency plans are unclear
State and boycott officials defended their actions on Saturday amid scrutiny over whether the camps and residents in cities are vulnerable to floods that have received appropriate alerts.
The national weather service issued a warning against the floods to the region on Thursday, and sent a series of flash warnings in the early hours of Friday. The Federal Agency expected from 3 to 6 inches (7.6 to 15.2 cm) of rain in the area northwest of San Antonio, but 10 inches (25.4 cm) fell.
The Guadalobi River rose to 26 feet (7.9 meters) in about 45 minutes in the early morning hours, immersing the flooding scale.
It was not immediately clear the type of evacuation plans that may have been the Mystic camp.
Care Rob Kelly County judge said that the province itself had no warning system. He stressed that no one knows a flood of this size.
Rescuers evacuate some camp with helicopters
By Friday noon, the Texas guards arrived at the Mystic camp and they were evacuating the camps. A rope has been tied so that the girls can stick to a bridge, and the flood water that rushes around their knees.
Ellinor Leicester, 13, said she was evacuated with her cabin colleagues by helicopters after running in flood water. I recalled a wake up at about 1:30 am, when thunder encouraged and water windows.
Leicester was among the older girls on a high ground known as Hill Great. She said that a cabin includes the younger camps, who can start attending at the age of eight, falling along the banks of the river and were the first to flood.
She said, “The camp was completely destroyed.” “It was really scary.”
Her mother, Elizabeth Leicester, said that her son was close to the La Junta camp and also fled. One of the advisers there woke up to find the water that rises in the cabin, opened a window and helped children swim. Camp La Junta, Camp and Dimar near in Instagram publications said that all the camp and employees are safe.
Elizabeth Leicester cries when she saw her daughter, who was holding a small bear and a book.
She said: “My children are safe, but knowing others are still missing to eat me.”
Families of the missing camp worry
Dozens of families participated in the local Facebook groups that they had received devastating phone calls from safety officials to inform them that their daughters were not yet present between the cabinets that were washed and their trees that were dropped. Camp Mestic said in an e -mail to the parents of approximately 750 of the camp that if they are not contacted directly, their child is calculated.
Camp Mystic sits on a tape known for the local population as “Flash Flood Ally”.
“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.”
Decades ago, the flood water swept a bus of teenage camps from another Christian camp along the Guadalobi River during the destroyed summer storms in 1987. A total of 10 camp of the golden Christian camp drowned after the bus was unable to evacuate in time from a site near comfortable, 33 miles (53 km) east of Hunt.
Memories of a happy camp are now distorted by sadness
Chloe Crane, a former teacher and advisor at the Sufi camp, said her heart was broken when an email teacher colleague from the camp participated about the missing girls.
She said: “To be completely honest, I cried because mystic has a special place, and I could not imagine the terrorism that I will feel as a consultant to experience this myself and 15 young girls I take care of.” “It is just sadness, like the camp there was forever, as the cabins were literally washed.”
Crane said the camp is a haven for young girls looking to get confidence and independence. I recalled happy memories to teach the camps about the press, making handicrafts and competition in the boat race at the camp level at the end of every summer. Now for many camp and advisers, their happy place has turned into a horror story.
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Shinbom mentioned from Salt Lake City. The Associated Press Ribika Bonn from Boys, Idaho.