Texas Floods
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We haven’t had a post about the situation in Texas, but things look grim:
“The process is going to keep going,” W. Nim Kidd, the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, said at a news conference on Saturday afternoon. “We’re not going to stop until we find everyone that’s missing.”
As the death toll continues to climb, investigators were trying to identify victims.
In Kerr County, an area northwest of San Antonio that has experienced the worst of the flooding, Sheriff Larry Leitha said that 32 people had died; 14 were children. In Travis County, which includes Austin, three people were killed, the authorities said.
The exact number of those who are unaccounted for remains unclear, but the search efforts have included looking for more than 20 girls from a nearly 100-year-old Christian summer camp in Kerr County.
Residents and officials were also taking stock of the broader physical destruction wrought by the floods. Rob Kelly, the top elected official in Kerr County, said it was becoming clear that cleaning up and rebuilding would be a “long and toilsome task.”
Twenty-seven young women from Camp Mystic are missing:
Camp Mystic, the Christian summer camp for girls on the Guadalupe River that was devastated by catastrophic flooding on Friday, is nearly a century old. Its facilities include a recreation hall that was constructed in the 1920s from local cypress trees.
In a brief email to parents on Friday morning, Camp Mystic said parents of campers who had not been accounted for had been notified. About 750 girls were at the camp this week, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas said at a news conference on Friday.
The camp said that it was assisting with search-and-rescue operations, but that it did not have power, water or Wi-Fi and was struggling to get more help because a nearby highway had washed away. The camp has two sites along the river near Hunt, Texas.
On social media and in text messages, parents circulated photos of some of the missing girls and exchanged hopeful stories that they were hearing about dramatic rescues: girls clinging to trees or floating downriver to a boys camp five miles away.