Frantic search for survivors of deluge that killed 32, including 14 children
After killing at least 32 people, including 14 children, a wild search for survivors in the center of Texas continues.
The Guadalupe River was asleep in the early hours of Friday, when it rose more than 26 ft (8m) in less than one hour.
Authorities in Kerr County said that 27 children were missing in a Christian youth camp along the river. About 850 people were rescued.
Weather forecasts show that the region can be more rain and potentially flooding on the horizon.
Among the most serious areas of the floods were mobile houses, summer camps and camp areas where many of which were gathered for July 4 holiday celebrations.
At a press conference on Saturday afternoon, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he signed an extended disaster declaration to increase the search efforts.
Authorities, authorities “every person who is the victim of this event” to find the cruel to find and “the work is completed,” he added, he added.
Authorities continue to be a search and rescue task, not an effort to heal.
They said that the savior went up and down on the Guadalupe River to try to find people swept by the floods.
Most of the rescue focused on the Christian summer camp.
The camp, where 27 was missing, is on the banks of the Guadalupe river near Hunt, Texas.
Texas Lieutenant Governor of Patrick, BBC’s radio 4 pm program, Camp Mystic missing 27 children “Most of these girls under 12 young girls under the age of 12,” he said.
He also said that many more people were not taken into account throughout the region, because some were visiting the holiday weekend.
Camp Mystic, a E -Posta to the parents of approximately 750 campers, said he thought his children were missing if there was no direct contact.
Some families have clearly stated that their children were among the dead.
US President Donald Trump said that his administration is working closely with local authorities to respond to the emergency.
Internal Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the President was “ruined” because of the loss of life and promised full federal support.
Noem attended the Governor Abbott at a press conference on Saturday afternoon and said he would deploy the Coast Guard to help the Federal government soon search efforts.
In the center of Texas, the authorities in other places in Travis County, two people died and 10 people are missing because of the flood, he says.
Estimators warned that Orta Texas could see more floods this weekend.
National Weather Service (NWS), the region on Saturday 2 to 5 inch (5 cm to 12 cm) can see rain, he said.
In some regions that still hang from the flood of Friday, the rain was possible up to 10in.
