Texas, floods and Camp Mystic
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The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas.
Many of the 650 campers and staffers at Camp Mystic were asleep when, at 1:14 a.m., a flash-flood warning for Kerr County, Texas, with “catastrophic” potential for loss of life was issued by the National Weather Service.
At least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods that saw the waters of the Guadalupe rise to historic levels in Central Texas, officials with Kerr County said Friday. Authorities have confirmed 103 deaths, 36 of whom are children.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNNew floods lead to rescues and evacuations across TexasHeavy rains caused multiple rivers in Central and North Texas to swell by more than 20 feet. Search efforts for victims of the July Fourth floods were suspended until Monday.
Flash floods last week in Texas caused the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically, reaching three stories high in just two hours
The group includes cynologists with rescue dogs among other experts. They set off from the military airport in Kbely, Prague, passing through the U.S. airbase Ramstein in Germany.
First lady Melania Trump donned a bracelet to honor the “the young souls who now watch over us from heaven” after several girls died in the Texas floods. A flood from last week led to the deaths of at least 129 people as of Saturday night.