Desperate social media asks as loved ones seeking any information about the people who have taken the flood. At least 10 inches (25 centimetros) rainfall pours at night in Central Kerr County, causing flooding in the guadalupe stream.
In a news conference Friday Kerr County Sheriff Larry Litha said 24 people were killed. Authorities say 237 people who have recuted now, including 167 by helicopter.
The lost children attend Camp Mystic, a Christian camp along the river of Guadalupe in a small hunting town. Elinor Lester, 13, said he and his spouses in the cabin should be compatible with safety.
A strong storm woke up his cabin at 1:30 in the morning, and when they arrived, they tied a rope while the children to hold holes in cattle and knees.
“The camp was completely destroyed,” he said. “A helicopter arrived and began to take people. Really scary.” The situation is still continued and officials say that death may change, with rescue operations continuing for an unspecified number of lost. Authorities are still working to know the dead.
Request for information after the flood-waiver is a GUGE of hunting river with 22 hours) at the National Weating Service office. Gauge failed after recording a level 29 and a half feet (9 meters).
“The water transfer is very easy, you don’t know how bad it is until it is above you,” Fogarty said.
On the Facebook page of Kerr County Sheriff Seriffic, people post pictures of loved ones and plead for finding them.
At least 400 people are on the ground helping the answer, says Patrick. Nine Siamese Save Teams, 14 helicopters and 12 drones are used, with some people who survive from the trees.
About 23 of nearly 750 girls attending mystic mystic one of those who were still unknown, says Patrick.
The crew makes the search “whatever we can do to find everything we can,” he said.
‘Parket black wall of death’ in Ingram, Erin Burgess woke up in thunder and rain at 3:30 in just 20 minutes later, the water poured his house straight across the river, he said. He described a suffering time holding a tree and waited for the water to exceed enough so that they could walk the hill at the neighbor’s house.
“My son and I floated in a tree where we hanged it, and my boyfriend and my dog was floating. He lost,” he said.
In his 19-year-old son, Burgess said: “It is grateful that he has a length of 6 feet. That is the only thing that saves me, hangs him.”
Matthew Stone, 44, of Kerrville, said the police came to knock on the doors at 5:30 am but he had no warning to his phone.
“We have no emergency alert. Nothing,” says the stone. Then: “A dark black wall of death.”
The stone says police used his boat paddle to help save the neighbor. He and the savares think they hear someone shouting “Help!” out of the water but did not see anyone, he said.
‘I’m afraid to die’ in a revision center set by Ingram, families cried and rejoiced that loved ones came from cars full of evacuees. Two soldiers brought an old woman who could not break a ladder. Behind her, a woman in a named t-shirt and shorts is scared a small white dog.
Later, a girl in a white “Camp mystic” t-shirt and white socks standing in a puddle, crying over his mother’s arm.
Barry Adelman, 54, said the water pushed all his three-story attic houses, including his 94-year-old grandmother and a 9-year-old grandchild. The water begins with the Tround The Attic Floor before giving up.
“I’m afraid,” he said. “I looked at my grandson in the face and told her that everything would be ok, but inside me was afraid of death.”
‘No one knows this type of flood comes’ the forecast called for the rain, with a flood-upsome upgraded to a warning to a 30,000 people. But totals in some areas exceeded expectations, Fugarty said.
Patrick explained that the potential for heavy rain and floods consist of a large area.
“Everything is done to give them a head to make you have a heavy rain, and we’re not sure where it goes to the ground,” Patrick said. “It was obvious that the night was dark, we entered the morning in the morning, so when the storm begins with zero.”
Asked how the Kerr County was announced so that they could reach safety, Judge Rock Kelly, the chief chosen official, said: “We have no warning system.”
When reporters push why cautions haven’t been taken, Kelly replied: “Maybe knowing, no one knows this flood comes.”
“We have floods all the time,” he added. “This is the most dangerous valley of the river in the United States.”
The famous tourism area of tourism in the area known as “Flash Flood Alley” due to the thin layers of land, collected donations of non-outsiders to help with poor disaster response.
“If it rains, water is not fluent on earth,” said Dickson. “It hurts the hill.”
The Tourism Tourism industry is a key part of the country’s economy on the hill, says Dickson. Summer camps are known for kids carrying children from the whole country, he said. Between Hunt and Ingram are many river houses and rental cabins.
“Usually a peaceful river with a very beautiful clear blue water that people causes generations,” says Dickson.
