Texas continues grim flood recovery with at least 50 killed, including 15 children | Texas Floods 2025

On Saturday, rescuers looked for 27 missing girls from a summer camp on the banks of the river in the US state of Texas, after heavy rains Inflict floods At least 50 people were killed – with more rainy rain.

Floods in CARE County were killed at least 43 people, including 15 children, and at least eight people died in nearby provinces.

Earlier in the day, Nim Kid, President Texas The emergency management division acknowledged, and acknowledged that the chances of finding more survivors had decreased with the passage of hours, but the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, said he ordered the respondents to assume that every missing person was still alive.

Dalton Rice, director of the city of Kerville, said that 27 girls from Mystic camp, a Christian summer camp along the Guadalobi River, are still missing. He added that the other people who were in the area but not in the camp can be missing. Heavy rains caused the river to rise 26 feet (8 meters) in just 45 minutes of dawn on Friday, washing homes and vehicles.

Larry La Betha said that about 750 girls were clouded along the river for the weekend on Independence Day, adding that the “catastrophic” rains had destroyed the area, which is located north of San Antonio.

The authorities said that about 850 people were rescued, as more than 1700 people participated in the search and elegance process.

Officials said that among the bodies that recovered, 12 adults and five children are still unknown.

One of the girls who attend the camp, RENE SMAJSTRLA, who was nine years old, was confirmed by her uncle.

“René has been found, and although the result that we prayed, communication with social media is likely to help the first respondents help to get to know it quickly,” Sean Salta. books On Facebook. “We are grateful because she was with her friends and spending her life time.”

Researchers used helicopters and drones to search for victims and save people who were cut off due to flood water. Certainly, the death toll is certain that it will rise, although the hopes remain that some of the affected people will be found alive. “They can be in a tree, they can be out of connection,” said Dan Patrick, the inherent ruler in Texas. “We pray for all who are missing alive.”

The danger did not end as it was expected that there was more heavy rains on Saturday, with warnings of amazing floods of parts of the center of Texas. “This is a particularly dangerous situation,” the national weather service (NWS) warned in A. bulletin. “Look for a higher floor now!”

Huge heavy rains have become like this more common all over the world due to the climate crisis, with a warm atmosphere that has a greater amount of moisture. In East Texas, there actually It was an increase of 20 % in the number of days with heavy rains or snow since 1900, with severe rains It is scheduled to rise Another 10 % in the next decade.

In the region affected by the floods in Texas, parents and families have published pictures of missing loved ones and appeals to obtain information. “The camp was completely destroyed,” said Ellinor Leicester, 13, one of the hundreds of the camp in Mestic camp. “A helicopter landed and began to take people away. It was really scary.”

She said that a raging storm woke up and her colleagues in the cabin immediately after midnight on Friday – and when the rescuers arrived, they tied a rope to the girls to keep them walking through a bridge with the flood water around their legs.

The floods caught in the middle of the night on the July 4 holiday, many residents, camp and officials. The officials defended their preparations for the harsh weather and their response, but they said that they did not expect such intense heavy rains that were in fact the equivalent of the most famous rain in the region.

Kid, from the Texas Emergency Department, said that one of NWS expectations this week called for only 3-6 inches (76-152 mm) of the rain.

“He did not predict the amount of rain we saw,” he said.

The death of Saturday renewed questions about whether it was wise to implement the Trump administration Deep budget and reduce jobs In NWS – among other federal government agencies – since his second presidency began in January.

“After the media reports, I warned months ago of severe and surprising discounts in [NWS] by [Donald] Trump can weaken their ability to predict and her life during the storm season, and Texas officials blame for inaccurate predictions by NWS with the deadly results of the flood. books On x.

However, Avery Tomasco, the meteorologist with CBS Austin, defended the predictors after local officials claimed that they were not warned of the potential danger. “The National Weather Service has released the clock of Kiir Province more than 12 hours before the catastrophic flood,” Thomasco books. “Surprising Warning has been released for Hunt [and] Ingram 3 hours before Guadalupe start ascending. They did their job and did it well. “

Trump addressed the deadly floods before 11 am on Saturday. On the social truth platform, the president said that his administration was working with government and local officials – and that he and the first lady, Melania Trump, “pray for all families.”

The press conference started in the afternoon with a series of long statements, congratulations and Trump’s praise from Republican officials, including Abbott, Minister of Internal Security, Chris -Sleep, Senator John Corn, and actor Shayb Roy. There was only after journalists pressed them for details about the rescue and recovery voltage, as they provided update from the missing and the dead.

Bob Vogarti, the meteorologist in Austin/San Antonio, said the river scale near the Camp Mestic scored 22 feet (6.7 meters) in about two hours. The scale failed after registering the level of 29.5 feet (9 meters).

“The water moves very quickly,” said Vogartiti.

On the Facebook page of the Care County Office, people post pictures of loved ones and beg to help find them.

In Ingram, Erine Burgis woke up to thunder and rain in the middle of the night on Friday. She said that after only 20 minutes, the water was flowing to her home directly from the river. She described a painful watch clinging to a tree and waited for water to recede enough to walk at the top of the hill to the house of a neighbor.

She said: “My son and I put me on a tree where I commented on it, and my friend and my father floated away.” “He was lost for a while, but we found them.”

“Fortunately, it is more than 6 feet (183 cm). This is the only thing that saved me-commenting on it,” said Borgis of her 19-year-old son.

Matthew Stone, 44, from Kerville, said the police came at the doors, but had not received any warning on his phone.

Stone said: “We did not get an emergency alert. There was nothing,” even suddenly there was “Black Death Wall.”

At the center of the reunion that was held in Ingram, the families cried and chanted as loved ones that were removed from the vehicles loaded with the boilers. Two soldiers carried an elderly woman who could not climb a ladder. Behind her, a woman holds a small white dog.

Later, a girl stood in a white woolen shirt and white socks in Baraka, crying between her mother’s arms.

Barry Adeleman, 54, said that Water pushed everyone in his three -storey home to the attic, including his 94 -year -old grandmother and his nine -year -old grandson. The water began to come across the attic floor before finally.

“I was terrified,” he said. “I had to look at my grandson in his face and told him that everything would be fine, but inside I was afraid to death.”

The expectations had called for rain, while observing the floods that were promoted to a warning overnight at at least 30,000 people.

The inherent ruler indicated that the possibility of heavy rains and covered a large area.

“Everything has been done to give them heads that could suffer from heavy rains, and we are not completely sure of the place where it will start,” Patrick said. “It is clear, as darkness last night, we reached the morning of the first day of the hours, when the storm started in zero.”

In response to a question about how people are notified in CARE to be able to reach safety, Judge Rob Kelly, chief official in the province, said: “We do not have a warning system.”

When the correspondents prompted the reason not to take more precautions, Kelly said: “Be reassuring – no one knew that this type of flood was coming.”

Austin Dixon, CEO of the Community Corporation at Texas Hill Control, who was collecting donations to help non -profit organizations to restore the disaster, said the region is known as the “Flash Flash Overlook” because of the delicate soil layer of hills.

“When it rains, the water does not sleep to the soil,” Dixon said. “It rushes to the bottom of the hill.”

Tourism is a major part of the country’s economy. Hill. Dickson said that the well -known summer camps of a century bring children from all over the country.

“It is generally a very quiet river with a really beautiful blue water that people have attracted to generations,” Dixon said.

The Associated Press contributed to reporting