Inside its inflated rivers Texasare looking for the victims who lost their lives in floodingrescuers. Until Tuesday morning (08.07.2025), authorities confirmed the deaths of at least 104 people. Many of them were children.
Research and rescue groups continue with heavy equipment to remove trees, rubble and vehicles and searching all over Texas for those who failed to do so from the deadly floods. At the same time, questions about the delayed – even non -existent – warning of the residents and the reasons why some summer camps were not evacuated, remain unanswered.
Officials spoke just a few hours after the Camp Mystic Camp, a Christian Camp Camp in Texas, Hill Country, announced that they announced that they announced that They lost 27 campers from the flood waters. 10 Even a consultant remain missing.
Researchers found the corpses of 84 peopleincluding 28 childrenin the county where Camp Mystic is located and several other summer camps.
With the new rainfall that is manifested, Floods continue to threaten areas in central Texas.
Authorities said the death toll is sure to increase.
The heavy floods – of the worst which have been recorded in the country for decades – have hit camps and houses along the river of the Guadeloupi River, with the camp scenes and caravans and crawling them for miles.
Some survivors were found to be held by trees.
Nineteen deaths They referred to the counties Travis, Bernet, Kendal, Tom Green and Williamson.
Among the confirmed dead were 8 -year -old sisters From Dallas who were in Camp Mystic and a former football coach with his wife who were staying in a house by the river.
Their daughters were still ignored.
Texas | Video out of Georgetown shows a man rescuing a dog in the flood waters from what appears to be an RV park pic.twitter.com/w0kgwb6I32
—(@Nerdy_Addict) July 5, 2025
“Texas is mourning. The pain, the shock we spent in recent days, has cracked the heart of our state, “commented the press conference by Texan Senator Ted Cruz.
After two days of desperate investigation between uprooted trees and debris at the holiday center, with the hope of being a “miracle”, Michael Bay said yesterday at the French Bureau that his 8 -year -old daughter, Lini, was found dead.
It is about ‘Nightmare of every parent’said Senator Cruz, whose children have been in the camp for about ten years.
After the disaster, Nicole Wilson, a mother living in San Antonio, and almost sending her daughters to Camp Mystic, but took them from another camp because of her concern that she would be flooded, she began collecting internet signatures to ask him to ask the commander.
“If he was sounding a siren, even five minutes ago, each of these kids would be saved,” he told AFP.
The sudden floods due to rains in the central part of Texas occurred early Friday morning on the day of the US National Feast. The waters of the Guadalupe River They were inflated by 8 meters within 45 minutes.
The rainfall reached the 300mm per hourone -third of an average annual precipitation.
The river returned to its riverbed, but on its banks the disasters are terrible.
Sudden floods, which cause torrential rains on dried soil that cannot absorb large amounts of water, are not a rare phenomenon. However, according to the scientific community, anthropogenic climate change makes more often and intense phenomena such as floods, droughts and heat.
Dozens of missing
More than 36 people are ignored throughout the state.
Research and rescue workshops said on Monday that more than 1,000 volunteers were heading to Ker.
City officials invited citizens to stop flying drones over the area, as they said a private drone operating illegally on Monday afternoon collided with helicopter involved in emergency businesses.
The helicopter was forced to make a forced landing and is out of service until newer.
Reagan Brown said his parents, about 80 years old, were able to escape the uphill as the water flooded their home in the Hunt. When the couple learned that their 92 -year -old neighbor had been trapped in her attic, they returned and saved her.
“Then, they managed to reach their tools, which were at a higher point, and the neighbors began to appear early in the morning in their tools, and they all went on a bike,” Brown said.
Elizabeth Leicester, mother of children in Camp Mystic and nearby Camp La Junta during the flood, said her young son was forced to swim from the window of his hut to escape. Her daughter left on the slope of the hill as the waters hit her legs.
Research on the responsibilities of tragedy
Authorities have pledged one of the next steps will be investigating whether several warnings were issued and Why some camps were not evacuated Or the campers did not move to a higher point, in an area that is vulnerable to floods, which some residents in the area call “sudden flooding”.
Authorities report that many of these points that flooded and lost many people their lives, They had no good signal.
Ever seen a wall of water come crashing down a river?
This is the timelapse footage of the Llano River on July 4th at 5:10pm.
This is a naturally occurring flash flood.
Mother nature is real.
pic.twitter.com/7kIf7amSdq— Tom Slocum for Texas (@slocumfortexas) July 5, 2025
“We definitely want to deepen and consider all these things. We look forward to doing this as soon as we finish the search and rescue. “
Some camps were aware of the dangers and watched the weather. At least one of them carried several hundreds of campers to a higher point before the floods.
Senator Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas, said recent cuts in government spending on the Federal Emergency Management Service and the National Meteorological Service They did not delay any warning.
“There is a time for political conflicts, there is a moment for disagreements. This is not the moment. There will be a moment to find out what could be done differently. My hope is over time to take some lessons to apply them the next time there will be floods, “he said.
The Meteorological Service initially informed possible floods on Thursday and then issued a series of sudden flood warnings in the early hours of Friday, before issuing emergencies for sudden floods – a rare step that warns the public.
Authorities made it clear that they did not expect such rainfall that was equivalent to rain months.
Although they insist, some residents have stated that They never received any warning.
THE Donald Trump, Who signed a declaration of a great deal of destruction for Kerr County, said he was planning to visit the state. He had stated on Sunday that he was not planning to re -retrieve any of the federal meteorologists who were fired this year.
“This was something that happened in seconds. No one was expecting it, “the president said.
White House spokesman Caroline Livit said that local and federal meteorological services provided sufficient warnings.
Information from Associated Press