The sorrow is palpable; the stench of death overwhelming. RUTH STYLES reports from the Texas valley where devastating floods killed at least 89

The smell of death still stands on the Guadalupe River, three days after the waterway exploded its banks in a magnificent way, and Ingram’s Little Texas towns, Kerrville left the Center Point under the water and hunted at the beginning of the day of independence.

Tragedy claims that there are at least 89 life, 41 people, including 10 young girls from a Christian summer camp, are still missing.

Most of the victims were swept in the early hours of Friday after the river rose in a few minutes.

There are many in areas that have no signal or silent alarms, warnings that should arouse them to the danger of approaching them.

48 -year -old Jamie Flick living in Ingram, “ I did not have any warnings until about eight in the morning.

This is crazy. The best thing I can think of is that we don’t expect it here, but we have a lot of smaller armies entering Guadalupe.

“ If it rains in this way, you will be hit here, right? We don’t know why the warnings are not here, but they weren’t just. Scary. ‘

Flick was talking with Daily Mail while looking for a local trailer park raised by the floods.

Ray Lackey’s Ingram, Texas trailer house was ruined in destructive floods

There are symptoms of desolation everywhere.

They are the deer and other wildlife bodies that were hidden among the loblolly pines that once listed the river banks and killed in a disaster that decayed in the 84F Texas heat.

The emergence of dead fish from the water contributes to the smell mixed with the smell of smoke spreading from the festive fires of the rolled tree branches set by cleaning teams.

Some of the bridges entering the bridges, the destruction of any sign of life desperately hunted cadaver dogs accompanied by rescue teams are applied.

Once upon a time, the oasis of rural peace is no longer silent. Sirens, police teams and the first intervention teams, Kerrville’i Ingram and 27 children died in Camp Mystic with the Küçük Hunt town of the village road on the village road 39 constantly explodes.

I miss it close and the stories of death are everywhere. Flick talks about a friend who wakes up from the same trailer park to find water flowing into his house in small hours.

“ They left the rear window, ” said Flick. “ “ He was able to go out with his dog and cat, stuck in a tree, cat in his head.

“ The dog was in a harness team, but he allowed him to go at some point for any reason and could not get him back. Finally, a neighbor saved him and the cat. ‘

Volunteers were seen as walking in an area under water to search for survivors in Ingram.

As Kerrville and neighboring Ingram and Center Point pass through neighboring towns, the scale of destruction rapidly became clear that giant pine trees were drawn to half like the toothpicks thrown.

62 -year -old Bambi Harrell helped friends to take the fragmented pieces of their lives on Sunday, and Daily Mail said he had never witnessed the disaster of this scale in 25 years in the region.

He added: ‘They continue to underestimate him, but I have never seen anything like this. They say we had such a thing 30 or 50 years ago.

“ These trees are dismantled at the age of hundreds of years and they go down.

“ We always have these big trees and big trees are now gone. I mean, nothing seen here before. ‘

Fiske is not alone in the destruction evaluation of the floods.

Bambi Harrell, 62 -year -old Bambi Harrell, who helped him take the shattered pieces of his friends’ friends on Sunday, ’25 years and I saw a lot of flash floods, but I didn’t see anything like that.

Reporter Ruth Styles says the smell of death is around him in Texas

‘We have an incredible first respondents who go upstairs and beyond.’

“I thought I was ready for that, but I wasn’t. I never saw anything like this. Destructive. ‘

The scale of destruction through Kerrville and neighboring Ingram and Center Point towns is rapidly becoming clear.

A road bridge across the river was partially caved, and the large lobols were released like the toothpicks thrown.

Crushed cars were barbecued in Guadalupe’s banks, scattered around the attempted boats – tear from the anchoring with the pure power of the movement.

Elsewhere, houses, including River’s Edge, tear – a small leafy trailer house just a few meters from Guadalupe in Ingram.

Julian Ryan, two of my 27-year-old father, died after punching it through a window, so his family was able to escape-at the expense of breaking his arm.

Afterwards, he was a ruined widow Christine Wilson, who spoke with CBS member Khou, ‘He broke the arterial on his arm and almost cleaned it’.

Julian Ryan, 27, greets a hero after using his last moments to save his family from fast -moving waters. He died after punching through a window of trailer houses and cutting the artery

Photographs of the trailer taken by Daily Mail shows the disaster damage to which it is exposed to

In Ryan’s trailer, the family’s furniture was thrown like water toys, while the flood traces almost reached the ceiling

Despite the repeated 911 call, Ryan could not be saved – his family ‘Sorry, I will not do it. I love you all. ‘

Daily mail photos of the trailer house show the disaster damage, flood marks almost reach the ceiling, and the family’s furniture was thrown like toys.

One side of the property cracked and twisted, corrugated iron exterior with the breakdown of the mud, spread to the inner walls.

Other trailers in the neighborhood were shifted from their foundations with landing three streets away.

Neighbor Ray Lackey, “ This is just a complete destruction, ” he said.

Like Ryan’s, the trailer house was ruined in the flood, and now late father and sister are full of mud that destroys most of their belongings, including the unreasonable photographs.

“ There are families who lost their lives, there are people killed I know. Difficult. I lost everything and everyone here – and everyone here means – he lost everything. ‘

Lackey, a carpenter, was outside the city when flooded, but without insurance, faced a war uphill to bring his life back to his way back.

Police cars and large equipment carrying expert equipment such as air boats and cherry collects equipped with trails and large equipment were seen on the TX-39 highway cut from the town when rescue operations started.

The crushed cars lie on the banks of Guadalupe, scattered around the raised boats – tear from the mooring with the power of the movement.

A property called Paradise by the Perisan owner hosted a police and the convoy of an emergency vehicles.

I hope someone will help us somehow. I wish I had insured, really, right? ‘he said.

“ I would never think something like this would happen. The river never came. That’s why I don’t know and I had a good time here. ‘

On the nearby streets, the houses were still standing, but Smelly River was full of mud, another property called paradise by the miserable owner was home to a phalanx of police vehicles.

In the meantime, the calm TX-39 highway, which was cut from the town, was transformed into large towers that attract expert equipment such as police cars and cherry collectors equipped with runways.

“Before that, it was just a beautiful, peaceful, cute place, Lak Lacay said. It was very quiet. Nobody dealt with anyone.

‘Everyone helped around here. And now everyone comes together. It helps people to be like them, and now they go out to help. ‘