(Bloomberg)-more than 50 people died and disastrous floods after the disastrous floods in Texas Hill Country lack dozens of children, so officials try to explain if they have made people warn of fast-growing waters.
At least 27 campers from the mystic camp, the summer camp of all girls along the Guadalupe in the Kerr Region, remains unanswered for the briefing, the officials said. They said they maintain this number, even if more bodies were discovered. Of the dead in Kerr County were 28 adults and 15 children. At least eight others died in nearby districts.
The authorities warn that the number of victims will rise because more rain is predicted, which increases the risk of other flash floods in the coming days. Officials refused to give a number for the total number of people who are missing, partly because so many visitors to the Tábor area came to the area during the fourth July of the holiday weekend.
The flood took Texas officials surprising. Thunderstoms, combined with the remnants of short -term tropical storms, produced much more rains than predicted.
“This is the most dangerous valley of the river in the United States. And we regularly deal with floods,” said Judge Kerr County Robert Kelly to reporters. “We had no reason to think it would be something like what happened here. None.”
The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes, said Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on briefing on Friday. The National Meteorological Service predicted only three to six inches of rain in the area.
Governor Greg Abbott expressed gratitude to the first respondents who poured into the area and said that the search for survivors continues. At a press conference on Saturday, Abbott, lined with the Minister of Internal Security, Kristi Noem thanked the federal government for providing assistance.
Abbott later said in the X post that he visited the Mystic camp on Saturday. Mystic is one of several youth camps in a hilly country that takes care of high -end families and upper classes from Dallas, Houston and Austin who send children for monthly stays like Camp Longhorn and Camp Waldemar. The authorities were able to confirm that no other camps were disappeared by children.
When an unexpected flood hit on Friday, there were about 750 children in the mystic camp, which is about 85 miles (137 kilometers) northwest of San Antonio. Hill country spills over all or part of more than 20 districts in the middle Texas, with the flourishing Austin and San Antonio on the eastern edge of the region controls the transformation from Ranchland into the suburbs.
The camp and “the river that ran beside him was terribly devastated in a way that I saw, unlike any natural disaster,” Abbott wrote. “The height that rushing water reached the top of the cabins was shocking. We won’t stop until we find every girl who was in these cabins.”
President Donald Trump said in a social media post that federal officials were working with state and local counterparts.
“Our brave first respondents do what they do best,” Trump wrote. “God bless the families and God bless Texas!”
The National Meteorological Service warned against more extreme collisions and life -threatening lightning floods in parts of the region, the release of flood watches and warnings in Central Texas, including parts of Austin and San Antonia. The service also showed numerous rescue of water.
Climate change has led all over the world with more extreme collisions. A warmer atmosphere can hold more water and increase the chances of deluces like the one that hit Texas.
Scientists have not yet investigated these floods to fingerprints climate change. Quick analysis of climatologists Colorado State University Russity Schumacher shows that six-hour rainfall sums made this event 1,000 years-it means that it had less than 0.1% chance of occurring in any given year.
Nim Kidd, head of the Texas Division of Emergency Proceedings, said the weather forecasts underestimated the severity of the storms. “The amount of rain that fell at this particular place has never been in any of the predictions,” Kidd said.
The meteorological service “is a broken tragic loss of life in Kerr County”, according to an e-mail statement late on Saturday, which included the timeline of the outlook and warning.
Noem said that federal officials would look at whether further warnings could be provided.
“For decades, for years everyone knows that the weather is extremely difficult to predict, but also that the National Meteorological Service, over the years, sometimes did well, and sometimes we all wanted more time and more warnings and other warnings and other announcements,” she said.
Officials saved about 850 people and use helicopters, ships and drones to look for others who need help, Abbott said. Many roads have been washed out and restricted access to some areas.
At the Mystic camp, they sat on a slope near the river aging bunk beds with the names of former campers carried out in rafters. Some were washed away with steep waters.
According to the error message, his website was overloaded with visitors on Saturday. Photographs that are said to be missing children spread on social media, but officials refused to release the names of any of the missing.
President’s daughters Lyndon Johnson spent several years in the mystic among living oak trees and a cedar brush and former first lady Laura Bush was a mystical advisor to a university monthly.
Posts on the Facebook page called Kerrville Breaking News were filled with photographs of people and pets that are said to be missing. One woman said she was trying to find a 19 -year -old counselor in mystic.
“People need to know today that it will be a difficult day,” said Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring.
-S assists by Yi Wei Wong, Susanne Barton, Brian K. Sullivan and Adam Majendie.
(Updates the number of victims from the first paragraph.)
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