Camp Mystic Death Toll Hits 27 while searching for children wiped out by the floods of Texas
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The Camp Mystic Death Toll has risen to 27 campers and counselors while the authorities continue their urgent search for children who are still missing in the Texas floods.
The summer camp with Christian all-girls, located along the River Guadalupe in Kerr County, was destroyed by the Flash floods that conquered the Lone Star State Stormenderhand On the early morning of the fourth July.
Camp Mystic issued a statement on Monday morning that confirmed an updated number of fatalities of the moving natural disaster during the weekend.
‘We have had communication with local and national authorities that use tirelessly extensive resources Search for our missing girls“The camp said in a statement on her website.
“We are very grateful for the outpouring of support from community, first responds and officials at every level.”
Of the 27 killed, one councilor, Chloe Childrendress, 18 and 10 campers are publicly mentioned.
They confirmed dead are: Janie Hunt, Margaret Bellows, Lila Bonner, Lainey Landry, Sarah Marsh, Linnie McCown, Winne Naylor, Eloise Peck, Renee Smajstrla and Mary Stevens.
At least 10 girls and a Kamp Mystic Counselor are still not justified.
Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly did not know what kind of reporting system Camp Mystic should try to bring all 750 of his campers to safety (shown: a girl who responds to the damage in the camp)
In the aftermath of the floods, blankets, teddy bears, clothing and other possessions in the camp were caked in mud
Rescue teams are frantically looking for missing victims, including 10 girls and a counselor who were in Camp Mystic (photo), a Christian summer camp along the river in Kerr County, when tragedy struck
About 750 children probably slept while the devastating floods sent a wall of water through the age -old camp.
In the aftermath of the floods, blankets, teddy bears, clothing and other possessions in the camp were caked in mud.
Windows in the huts were crushed with the power of the rising river, which rose 30 feet above its normal level on Friday.
The beloved director of Camp Mystic, Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, 70, died while trying to save girls when a month of rain dropped within a few minutes.
When the survivors were evacuated, the huts kept full of girls on a rope that had been rained by rescuers while walking over a bridge with water waving around their legs.
The floods have caused the most destructive hilly country – called ‘Flash Flood Alley’ – in Kerr County, where the camp is located.
Judge Rob Kelly van Kerr County revealed that the county has no uniform emergency aid system to inform residents of an oncoming disaster.
“We looked at it earlier … the audience staggered on the costs,” he said.
He also did not know what kind of reporting system camp Mystic should try to bring all 750 of the campers to safety.
‘What I know is that the flood first touches the camp, and it came in the middle of the night. I don’t know where the children were, “he added.
‘I don’t know what kind of alarm systems they had. That will come out on time. ‘
After the camp, Texans expressed dissatisfaction about how emergency reports were rolled out, many said they didn’t get enough time to evacuate.
Windows in the huts were crushed and the interior was completely covered with mud
Texans are frustrated by the lack of an efficient emergency aid system to let victims know that a serious storm was going on
“This was not a prediction failure,” meteorologist Matt Lanza told the Texas Tribune. “It was a breakdown in communication.”
“The warnings were there. They just didn’t come to people on time, “he added.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Name Abbott during a press conference on Saturday and promised to update the ‘old system’.
“The weather is extremely difficult to predict,” said. “But also that the National Weather Service has sometimes done well over the years and sometimes we all have wanted more time and more warning and more notification.”
She said that the Trump administration is working on ‘repairing’ and ‘updating the technology’.
“We had to renew this old system that has been left with the federal government with the federal government for many, for many years, and those are the reforms that are going on there.”
She continued on Fox & Friends and said that Trump works to use new technology and a new system ‘at the NWS’ because it has been neglected for years. “
At least 82 people – including 28 children – were killed, and at least 41 others are missing throughout the state, but there can be more, according to Governor Greg Abbott.
Search teams are still diligently looking for those who are missing in the floods
The Texas Division of Emergency Management has predicted that this grim number of top 100, Daily Mail can excluding.
In an e -mail sent on Saturday, the State Disaster Office Partners said that the number of deaths would exceed two different sources confirmed to Daily Mail.
According to officials, more than 850 people have been saved by the American Coast Guard and First Responders of the State.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said in an advice that heavy rainfall of up to three centimeters and thunderstorms on Monday can cause more floods about the Texas Hill Country.
An area could see rain that exceeds more than five centimeters, which ‘quickly leads to flooding’, the National Weather Service has warned.
The rain has already begun to fall near Williamson County this morning and is expected to increase all day.
The heaviest storms are currently near Killeen, a city in Bell County, where there is currently a flash flow warning.
Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas belong to the areas predicted by today’s storm, according to the last NWS prediction.
Civil servants warn that the risk of heavy rainfall remains in the region.
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