Flood alerts questioned as rescuers search for missing

The death fees of the fourth flash flood that destroyed a patch of Central Texas Hill Country, many of them children, many children, still pushed the mud -covered rash mounds looking for a lost score.

According to the figures published by Governor Gregg Abbott on Tuesday afternoon, the authorities were looking for more than 180 people who were not counted four days after the most deadly US flood events for decades.

A large part of the deaths and the search for additional victims in Kerr County and Kerrville’s district’s seat concentrated, a town of 25,000 people, when a harsh rains hit the area on Friday, the Guadalupee River Basin left the water.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, after visiting the region by Air at a press conference in the afternoon, about one -third of children, about one -third of the children’s bodies gathered only in Kerr district on Tuesday, he said.

Kerr County Dead is among the 27 camp Mystic and consultant from Camp Mystic, which is a century of Christian summer withdrawal on the Guadalupe, near Hunt town. The camp director died.

Abbott said five girls and a camp consultant still not calculated on Tuesday with another child who is not associated with the camp.

On Tuesday, the death of 15 floods in a moss of Texas Hill, known as “Flash Sel Alley”, was confirmed, and the governor said that the lost lives brought to 109. The reports of local sheriffs and the media put the number of flood deaths other than Kerr County on 22.

However, the authorities said that they were preparing to climb the death fee while the flood waters were withdrawn and that more victims were accelerating.

Abbott said that law enforcement officers have compiled a list of 161 people who are known to be “missing” in Kerr County. According to the governor, the squad was controlled against those who would not contact your loved ones or neighbors because they were on holiday or outside the city.

As a whole, which is an expanding area in the northwest of San Antonio, he said that 12 people were missing elsewhere in the flood region.

Federal agencies, neighboring states and rescue teams from Mexico, which were blocked by intermittent storms and showers, participated in local efforts to look for missing victims, although they had hopes to find more survivors as time passed. The last victim found alive in Kerr County was Friday.

“The job is extremely treacherous, time -consuming,” he said at a press conference at a press conference. “Dirty work. Water is still there.”

Less than one hour last Friday, a feet fell more than the rain in the area, and sent a wall of water that killed dozens of people and left the barbecue wreckage, rooted trees and overturned vehicles.

Local, State and Federal Emergency officials have encountered questions for days as to whether they have warned people in flooded areas.

On Thursday, the state emergency management officials warned that the sections of Orta Texas were facing the possibility of flash on the eve of the disaster, based on national weather service forecasts.

However, according to the City Director Dalton Rice, he said that twice as much rain fell above Guadalupe’s two branches, and sent all the water races to the single river channel sliced ​​from Kerrville.

Rice said that the result did not occur within two hours and did not emerge and left a little time to make a precautionary mass evacuation without the risk of harming more people.

Scientists, climate change in Texas and other parts of the country warmer, more wet air patterns, because the excessive flood events are more common, he said.