In a matter of hours, a quantity of rain equal to several months’ worth of rainfall fell in the Texas Hill Country region, killing 24 people on April 4 and leaving many others reported missing, including 20 niños who helped with a verano campaign.
Desesperated splicas flooded social media while family members looked for any information they could about the people involved in the affected area. During the night, there were up to 25 cent metros (10 pulgadas) of heavy rain in the Kerr County center, which led to the ro Guadalupe’s destruction.
Larry Leitha, the sheriff of the county of Kerr, stated in a prensa parade held on the evening of the fourth that 24 people had died. According to the authorities, 237 people have been rescatado up to this point, with 167 of them in helicopters.
They are not local, but they support Camp Mystic, a Christian camp near R o Guadalupe in the little town of Hunt. Elinor Lester, who was thirteen years old, stated that she and her fellow cabina eras had to be rescatada in a helicoptero.
Around 1:30 in the morning, a terrible agony broke out in their cabin, and when the rescatistas arrived, Lester said they would have to form a guard so they wouldn’t be subjected when they were crossing a river with water all the way to the rodillas.
“The campaign was completely destroyed,” he said. An ethereal ptero began to descend onto the ladies. He was truly aterrador.
The authorities focused on the fact that the situation was still developing, that the deceased’s name could change, and that rescue operations were underway for a missing person who was not specifically identified.
In order to identify the fallen, the authorities were working.
After the floods, copies are made by information
According to Bob Fogarty, meteor ologist from the Austin/San Antonio office of the Servicio Meteorol gico Nacional, the level indicator of the r o in the Hunt community records an increase of 6.7 metros (22 pies) in around two hours. After recording a level of 9 metros (29 pies and medio), Fogarty indicates that the medidor stops functioning.
The water appears so bad that you won’t be able to recognize it until it’s past you, says Fogarty.
On the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, people posted pictures of their family members and asked for help finding them.
Vice Governor Dan Patrick stated that at least 400 people were on the ground to handle the emergency. Twelve drones, fourteen helicopters, and nine rescue equipment were being used, and some people were rescued from the rboles.
Approximately 23 of the approximately 750 people who volunteered to help at Camp Mystic were among the missing, according to Patrick.
The B-squeda teams were doing everything they could to find everyone they wanted, no matter what.
“Muro negro de muerte”
Erin Burgess is awakened by a trueno around 3:30 a.m. in Ingram. Twenty minutes later, the water entered the walls and flowed through the front and rear entrances. He suggested waiting a day for a rbol in the hopes that the water would drop enough to allow the colina to reach a neighbor’s house.
My daughter and I floated to a rbol where we were welcomed, and my niece and my dog also floated. We lost them for a while, then we found them, he said.
According to 44-year-old Kerrville resident Matthew Stone, the police arrived at the doors at 5:30 a.m., but he had not received any advertisements on his cell phone.
We have not received any emergency alerts. No hubo nada, Stone indic. And then a black dead body.
Stone stated that the police use their remobot to rescue a neighbor. and the rescatistas believed they heard someone playing the guitar. from the water, but they were unable to see anyone, adi.
Muerto de miedo estaba
Families in an Ingram reunion center wept and cheered while their loved ones refused to ride in vehicles carrying evacuees. Two soldiers brought a larger woman who was unable to carry an escalera. Behind it, a woman wearing a dress and short-suction pants supports a small or white dog.
Lately, a ni a with a white Camp Mystic camiset and white calcetines sits in a charco, sullying her mother’s brazos.
Barry Adelman, who is 54 years old, stated that the water forces everyone in his three-pet home—including his 94-year-old aunt and his 9-year-old niece—to submit to the tico. The water starts to enter the tico’s piso but eventually backtracks.
I was horrified, relat. You had to look at my niece’s face and say that everything was fine, but that she was dying with fear.
“Nadie sab a que ven an este tipo de inundaci n”
The weather forecast predicted rain, and at least 30,000 people were under an inundation warning throughout the night. However, in certain places, the totals exceeded expectations, Fogarty said.
Patrick stated that there is a significant risk of severe rainfall and flooding.
We did everything we could to warn them that there would be heavy rain and that we are not entirely sure where it will fall, said Patrick. Naturally, the anguish started to focus when we encountered another person and reached the first few hours of the mother’s day.
When the reporters asked how the people in Kerr County were notified so they could respond, Rob Kelly, the county’s chief elected official, responded, “We don’t have an alert system.”
When the reporters insisted on why no precautions were taken, Kelly replied, “I have the assurance that no one knew that we were experiencing this kind of flooding.”
We’re inundated all the time, Aggreg. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States.
A natural tendency toward flooding
According to Austin Dickson, director general of the Texas Hill Country Community Foundation, which was collecting donations to support nonprofit organizations responding to the disaster, the area is known as the corredor of the repentant floods caused by the sea level rise of the coastlines.
When the water is not absorbed by the soil, Dickson is notified. Abajo corre colina.
According to Dickson, the river tourism industry is a vital component of the Hill Country’s economy. These hundred-year-old verano campaigns draw people from all around the country. There are many houses and cabins between Hunt and Ingram that are all together.
Overall, it’s a very peaceful place with a truly beautiful blue water that has drawn people for generations, Dickson said.
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Fingerhut provides information from Des Moines, Iowa. Additionally contributing were the Associated Press journalists Adrian Sanz from Memphis, Tennessee; Hannah Schoenbaum from Salt Lake City; John O’Connor from Springfield, Illinois; and Susan Haigh from Norwich, Connecticut.
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor using a tool for artificial intelligence generation.
