Buried in tons of mud, in rubble and fallen trees remain for another day the Texaswhile investigations into missing after disastrous flooding It continues at a very slow pace due to the diversity of soil in the area. The scene at the point where the girls was camp.
The report of the victims increases as the dead from the deadly floods in Texas reached 119 while their missing 173.
Investigations continued all over Wednesday (9.7.2025) in the state of the American South, which hit torrential rains and deadly floods on the day of the American National Feast on July 4th.
Rescue crews continued to search for the 173 missing, but this list will “probably go away” further, the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, has warned.
Yesterday he explained that only 161 people are missing in Ker County, based on informations of the authorities by friends, relatives and residents.
County officials confirmed that number yesterday, while another 12 are missing in the rest of Texas.
“Our duty number 1 is to find every person who is ignored,” the governor Abbot insisted via X.
Overall, 119 deaths have been recorded as well as floods in Texas, according to local authorities.
Ker County, who suffered the heavier blow, laments 95 dead, including 36 children, according to sheriff Larry Lithia.
Among them are 27 children and female camp supervisors, Camp Mystic, on the bank of the Guadalupe River. There were 750 people there when the tragedy unfolded.
Five campers and supervisors continued to be ignored yesterdayAccording to sheriff stone, who also added that another child, besides the camp, is also ignored.
Over 2,000 members of rescue workshops, police and experts have been developed at the scene of the disaster. Helicopters, drones and groups with specially trained dogs have also been involved in research operations for days.
Emphasizing the difficult conditions in which rescue workers work, in mud, uprooted vegetation and debris, Kerville police officer, Jonathan Lam, said hundreds of people were saved and that the situation could be “much” worse.
Officers were going “door-to-door” and “waking the world” on Friday morning, in some cases “getting out of windows”, as their houses or caravans had already flooded, he explained.
Catastrophic flooding in Kerr County, Texas has left 13 people dead and 23 girls missing from Camp Mystic. The Guadalupe River rose about 9 meters after 18 cm of rain. 500 rescuers and 40 helicopters deployed. A once-in-a-lifetime disaster. #Texas #flood #kerrville #alert #usa pic.twitter.com/3ZJFo0u2b0
— WeatherUpdateEU (@WeatherUpdateEU) July 4, 2025
President Donald Trump is expected in the state tomorrow Friday, accompanied by his wife Melania.
On Monday, the White House raised the criticisms that the cuts of budget and staff of the National Meteorological Service reduced the accuracy and reliability of its forecasts and extraordinary warning bulletins.
In the press interviews yesterday and yesterday, local officials generally preferred to avoid providing clear answers to questions about the speed of warnings. But the sheriff’s stone acknowledged that they would be “answered”.
The sudden floods due to rainy rains in the central part of Texas took place early Friday morning when its waters Guadalupe River inflated by eight meters in just 45 minutes.
The rainfall reached 300 mm per hour, one -third of an average annual precipitation.
Sudden floods, which cause torrential rains on dried soil that cannot absorb such large quantities of water, are not a rare phenomenon.
Video showing the arrival of the flash flood in Texas which has taken the lives of so many young innocent girls. Where did this wave come from, no mountains in Texas as far as I’m aware #Texasflood pic.twitter.com/y21lzmxJyu
— Truth Pixie (@PixieTruth) July 5, 2025
However, according to the scientific community, anthropogenic climate change makes more often and intense phenomena such as floods, droughts and heat.
The tragedy occurred in a Texas sector that is “the two ends of the climate change spectrum”, as “droughts have become more extreme” and “when rain comes, it is more severe and there is an increased chance of sudden floods,” he explained to the French agency.
In the neighboring state of Neo Mexico, torrential rains caused flood at a mountain station in Ruindosos, causing at least 3 people to lose their lives.