Governor Greg Abbott said that at least 161 people are missing even four days after floods in some parts of the state last week, Governor Greg Abbott said, because it is found to be alive for people survived.
Missing in the Hard-Hit Ker County consists of five campers and a counselor of the Camp Mistic, a Christian all-gourd summer camp located on the banks of the Gwadalup River.
Abbott said at a news conference on Tuesday, “At least 109 people have died in the disaster, including 94 in the Kerville area alone.”
Texas is not alone. New Mexico looked at the National Weather Service (NWS) with a warning of intense floods on Tuesday night along with a flash flood emergency.
In Texas, frantic discovery and rescue efforts continue, with Abbut Vrabling Emergency Crew “” until every missing person is accounted for, it will not have to stop. ”
Abbott said that it is very likely that the list would disappear more in the list in the coming days, and urged people to report to anyone that they are unmatched.
Texas National Guard General Thomas Suilzer said the search efforts included Chinook and Black Hawk Helicopters, with rescue.
He said that 13 black hawk helicopters are helping in searching, including four coming from Arkansas. He said that the officers were also using reaper drones.
Responsible to various agencies are working together on rescue efforts, including agents of border petrol, FBI and National Guard.
More than 250 respondents of various agencies have been assigned to the Kerville region alone to help in search and rescue.
One of the rescue volunteers named Tim told the BBC that he had never seen any destruction on this scale before.
“I have lowered floods in East Texas and South -East Texas, and storm, and this is a bad dream,” he said.
Another rescue volunteer, named Justin, compared the attempt of “trying to find the same grass in a histor”.
He said, “There is a wide footpath of destruction for miles, and not enough cadver dogs to go through it,” he told the BBC.
“It is difficult to use it very much with heavy machinery. People are trying to take it with equipment and hands, and they are not even breaching into it – not for lack of effort.”
Questions have been raised about whether the authorities had warned of sufficient floods before the disaster, and why people were not evacuated earlier.
Experts say that Texas contributed to the tragedy, including extreme weather, holiday houses, and location of time.
The governor, who had spent the day part in the survey of the flood sector, said that the authorities had issued a storm warning and a potential flash was known about the flood, but “the horrors of the storm did not know”.
He said that no one knew that it would lead to “30-foot high tsunami water wall”.
The governor replied to a question that who was for “defect” for heavy death, saying “It is a word of losers’ choice.”
He created a game analogy, stating that the American football team makes mistakes; The champion teams are those that “do not indicate fingers”.
Most of the victims died in Ker County, where the fourth public holiday of July was swollen due to the decline of torrential the Gwadalup river before the day’s time on Friday.
Camp Mistic had earlier confirmed that at least 27 girls and employees were among the dead.
Those who survived are now focused on trying to rebuild.
Justin Brown has been with the Gwadalup River for over 25 years.
A week ago, he lived in his mobile house at Blue Oak RV Park with his two young daughters and dogs. Now, there is a huge puddle where his house was standing once – his RV was swept away in the flood.
“We were one of the few parks that excluded almost everyone,” Mr. Brown told the BBC that he described the efforts of his landlord and emergency employees who evacuated almost all the residents of the park.
Looking at the empty lot, where his house was standing once – now only the debris – he said that he expects to return as soon as possible.
President Donald Trump will travel to flood -filled areas with First Lady Melania Trump on Friday.
Separately, in New Mexico, NWS on Tuesday announced a flash flood emergency and told the residents of Ruidoso on high alert for floods.
The officials there are already working to save people trapped in flood waters and houses are allegedly washed.
A flood wave on Rio Rideoso has reached 15 feet (4.5 m), in Albuquerk, NWS said in a post on X.
According to BBC American partner CBS, the water began after about two hours.
The authorities had to rescue some Swift boats and some people were unaware of Tuesday evening.
