Nine children among 27 dead as search continues for many missing

“The camp was completely destroyed, El Elinor Lester, one of the hundreds of camps, said. “A helicopter landed and began to take people. He was really scary.”

He woke up his cabin immediately after midnight on Friday, and when the savior arrived, they tied a rope to keep the girls walking around a bridge around their legs.

Crazy parents and families said that they were pleased with their loved ones and pleasure for information.

On Saturday, the camp was often abandoned. A few people, including a van thrown next to him and a building that did not miss the entire front wall, a few people looked at the damage while helicopters roared above.

Among the approved dead were the director of a camp just above the road from Camp Mystic.

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In the middle of the night, Sel surprised many calm, campers and officials at Hill Country, northwest of San Antonio.

Acceweather said that the private estimation company and the National Weather Service sent warnings about potential flash floods hours before the destruction.

“These warnings should provide enough time to evacuate the camps like Camp Mystic and provide people with safety, Camp said Acceweather, one of the most glittering areas of the United States because of the land and many water transitions.

Authorities defended their actions by saying that they did not expect such an intense downpour, which was the equivalent of rain worth months for the region.

Nim Kidd, Chief of the Department of Emergency Management of Texas, said an estimation of a national weather service at the beginning of the week.

Helicopters, Lost

Rice, search teams “looking at everywhere possible” faced with harsh conditions.

Authorities said that approximately 850 people have been rescued. The US was flying to help the coast guard helicopters.

A re -merger center in a primary school was mostly silent on Saturday after releasing hundreds of evacuation a day ago.

“There are still people looking for their loved ones. We have been a little successful, but not too much, Bob

President Donald Trump said that the internal security secretary Kristi NOEM traveled to Texas and that his administration was working with the authorities on the ground.

“Melania and I pray for all families impressed by this terrible tragedy, Tr Trump said in a statement on the social media network.

Residents stuck to the trees, fled to their lofts

In Ingram, Erin Burgess woke up to thunder and rain in the middle of Friday night. He said he was poured into the water house after just 20 minutes. With his young son, he described a painful clock clinging to a tree.

“My son and I swam on a tree we hung on, and my boyfriend and my dog ​​swam. He disappeared for a while, but we found them,” he said.

Barry Adelman said Water pushed everyone in his three -storey house, including his 94 -year -old grandchild and nine -year -old grandson.

Im I had to look at my grandson on his face and tell him that everything would be in his way, but I was afraid of death. ”

The local calm knows this as “flash Flood Alley ..

“When it rains, the water does not get wet when it rains,” said Austin Dickson, CEO of the Community Foundation, Texas Hill Country. “He’s running down the hill.”

‘Nobody knew that such a flood came’

The weekend called for estimated rain, a flood time was upgraded to a night warning for at least 30,000 people on Friday. Texas Lieutenant Governor Patrick, heavy rain and flood potential covered a large area, he said.

“Everything was done to give them a title where you can rain heavy rain, and we’re not exactly sure where to get down,” Patrick said. “As we frankly got dark last night, we entered the morning of the clocks, then the storm began to reset.”

The elected official of the district Kerr District Judge Rob Kelly said: “We do not have a warning system.”

When he pushed more measures that no measures were taken, Kelly said that no one knew that such a flood came.

AP