Football coach and wife killed in floods in Texas while their children remain missing with the death toll on 52: live updates

Reece Zunker and his wife Paula belong to those who died in the devastating floods, and their two young children are still missing.

The family and the local football team of the couple confirmed their death on social media, while a family member said that their house was seen “floating through the Guadalupe River.”

Tivy Boys Soccer Team paid tribute to their coach in a Facebook message and said that he “rebuilt the football program and left a legacy.”

“His passion for his players, students, colleagues, community and his family will never be forgotten,” the team wrote.

Dozens of people comment on the post to share the ‘incredible’ impact he had on their lives.

The Guadalupe River, which runs through various cities, about 100 miles southwest of Austin, broke his banks on July, causing the floods of the sample.

Communities such as Kerrville and Ingram have been destroyed by the flood and dozens of children who camped in the nearby camp Mystic are still missing.

The Peruan-American Pope offered his ‘sincere condolences’ and prayers for the families in Central Texas, including 27 children who are still missing in a Christian summer camp for all-girls along the river that erupted his banks.

“I would like to express sincere condolences to all families who have lost loved ones – in particular their daughters who were in the summer camp – caused in the disaster by the flood of the Guadalupe river in Texas in the United States,” he said during his Sunday Angelus prayer in the Vatican.

“We pray for them,” he added.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for various provinces, including Kerrville County in Texas, which has seen the worst floods so far.

Meteorologists have warned that ‘floods caused by excessive rainfall is possible’ in the region until 1 p.m. on Sundays.

The warning includes Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Comal, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Lee, Llano, Medina, Travis and Williamson Counties.

Civil servants have predicted that two to four centimeters will fall over the area on average, with a maximum of 10 inches possible in the worst affected regions.

The National Weather Service escalated the warning to a flash flame warning at 1 am Friday, followed by a more serious emergency in the flash at 4.30 a.m.

But at this point, water was already flowing into the houses of families.

Many Texans have blamed the slow updates as part of the reason that at least 52 people have lost their lives and dozens are missing.

In recent months, the National Weather Service has fired around 600 people as part of the radical cuts of Donald Trump on federal services.

It had recently started hiring 100 new employees.

Trump has also proposed cutbacks for FEMA and Noaa, federal agencies that conduct climate research and help prepare states for natural disasters.

Greg Abbott described a scene of pure horror on Saturday when he visited Camp Mystic.

The picturesque site was at the epicenter of the floods and dozens of children camp there when the flood struck.

Officials have said that 52 people were confirmed dead, including 15 children, since the flood in the center of Texas started on Thursday.

The majority of those who died was in Kerrville County, where the River De Guadalupe broke its banks in the early hours of the fourth July.

Rescuers kept combing the river for dozens of missing people on Sunday. The death toll is expected to rise.