Heartbreaking pictures show devastating aftermath of deadly floods which killed 27 | World | News
Walking photographs caught the destruction of at least 27 people, including nine children, after opening the floods of the floods of the overflowing Guadalupe River, just before the dawn of a violent storm. In a touching picture, a child’s toy – shattered bodies and twisted branches are colored in a bright way – the muddy river edge is not touched. Another shows a building with an entire wall that does not reveal anything except a texas flag and a few paintings that stick to the remaining walls.
Parents were wildly pleased to help on social media on Friday with their daughters’ photographs, because they were not calculated after being sweeping in the center of Texas on a dozens of camps. Hundreds of more people continue to be lost in the region and the authorities say that 850 people have been rescued so far. State officials confirmed that 23 to 25 girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls in Hunt, Texas, are still not calculated.
Lt Gov from Patrick said: “I ask the people of Texas, I make a serious prayer. In your knees to pray to find these young girls.”
Founded in 1926, Camp Mystic is one of the most storey camps in the region. Families usually record their daughters years ago to secure a place. Before the flood, social media broadcasts showed the green roof cabins, horses-driven girls, fishing and matching T-shirts, which showed what looks like a pastoral scene. Cammers aged 8-17 posed with wide smiles.
The same landscape has now been transformed. Another photo shows a van stuck in half of a tree swinging on the two wheels. Recently, a ferry body, branches and bent metal lies spread across the mud.
Emergency teams spent the river shores and the surrounding forests on Friday, and the helicopters were still imprisoning campers trapped by flood waters. A rope bent along a bridge, so that the girls can withstand the knee wandering with deep water.
13 -year -old Elinor Lester, thunder and cabin raining at 1.30 hours after the camp Mystic was released by helicopter, he said. He said that he and his cabin friends were placed in a higher place known as the senior hill – but the young girl cabins sitting along the river were rapidly flooded.
He said: “The camp was completely destroyed. It was really scary.”
His mother Elizabeth Lester said that his son was near Camp La Junta and fled narrowly. A counselor there woke up to the rising water and helped men escape from a window. Camp La Junta and Camp Waldemar were later released on Instagram and confirmed that all their campers and staff were safe.
The director of another camp just above the road from Mystic was among the approved dead.
Elizabeth Lester, holding tears, said that he had finally left when he reunited with his daughter, who had gripped a toy bear and a book.
He said: “My children are safe, but knowing that others are still missing, just me to eat live.”
Several families went to Facebook to share that they had received destructive phone calls from the authorities confirming that their daughters are not yet available.
Camp Mystic sent an e -mail that says that their children were accountable when they were not directly communicated to their parents of approximately 750 campers.
More than 100 people gathered at a school in Ingram and were used as a re -merger center in the afternoon. A young girl wearing a mystical shirt a camp sobbed in her mother’s arms, soaked while her white socks stood in a puddle.
The camp is located in Texas, a center known as “Flash Sel Street ,, where hard limestone rain water competes from the hills instead of getting wet.
“When it rains, the water does not get wet into the soil.”
The National Weather Service estimated 3 to 6 inches for the region, but fell more than 10 inches. LT Gov Patrick said the Guadalupe River rose to 26 feet under an hour and completely sinking the flood indicator.
Friday’s tragedy reflects a fatal storm in 1987, when flood waters ‘Pot O Pot O’ Gold Christian Camp, who carries young girls from ‘Gold Christian Camp’. The vehicle died only 33 miles east of Hunt, near the comfort of the vehicle, after ten campers died.
A teacher and former Camp Mystic Advisor Chloe Crane said that when he saw an e -mail about the missing girls, his heart was broken.
He said: “To be quite honest, I cried because Mystic is a very special place and I couldn’t imagine the horror that I would feel as a consultant to experience myself and 15 little girls I am interested in.
“And at the same time, just sadness, camp is there forever and cabins are fully washed.”
He said Camp Mystic was a place where girls came to create confidence and independence. On the last day of summer, he taught journalism, workmanship and race canoes. Now, many of these happy memories are shattered.
