A deadly 1987 flood scarred the same Texas county that is reeling through another disaster
In 1987, Cindy Manley was a summer camp consultant where he scared a different destructive Selin Texas Hill country.
In the Hills Camp, the heart is on the Guadalupe River where a great research continues For more 160 people who are still believed to be missing after the disaster flood during the fourth July holiday. Nezly years ago, when the river began to rise, Manley said that it was an informal system: the upstream camps call a warning and raise children from their bunk beds and higher ground.
In the 1987 flood, Manley remembered a floating canal that wounded the camping director Jane Ragsdale. But 68 -year -old Ragsdale Between more than 100 victims Kerr County, many of them died in the flood that started on July 4th.
“This water did something different, Man Manley said. “Jane knows more floods than anyone.
The deadly rotation of Selin near the Guadalupe River was at least for the fifth time in the last century. Locally, the region, known as “flash flood alley ,, has hills that rapidly collect water and turn it into narrow river banks. Water rises quickly, catching people with surprise.
Here is a look at the deadly flood of the river.
Crazy evacuation in 1987
He killed 10 young people in mid -July and wounded 33 people. The water river and his arms crushed hundreds of forced to escape. At a Christian academy, buses that evacuated children were initially encountered modest floods. While some vehicles returned over time, a bus and minibus were stranded when the river rose rapidly.
According to a government report, while children tried to leave the buses ashore to security, “A water wall that was estimated to be half a mile wide ran to the campers”. Their children disintegrated. A bus with a Baptist church on the side of the Seagoville Road Baptist was multiplied by a mixed trees, at an angle and partly under water.
A deadly morning flood in 1978
The amount of rain was extraordinary – between 1 and 3 August, some parts of the hill fell 30 inches.
He killed 33 people. The National Ocean and the atmosphere Administration said that Selin was shot in the early hours of the morning, which hit Hill Country.
Heavy rains in the early 1990s
Most of the state was flooded, killed at least 13 people, and especially caused great damage to agriculture. The months of 1991 were more wet than usual. Then more than half of the state was shot with more rain than 4 inches (10 centimeters) in a six -day period from Christmas. This, not only in the Guadalupe Basin, but also the authorities “one of the most voluminous floods recorded on the state of Texas” created things.
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Associated Press writer John Hanna contributed to Washington from Topeka, Kansas and writer Albee Zhang.
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