How fast moving floods thwarted through Central Texas

The warning signs were already flashing when hundreds of young people celebrated the public holiday on July 4 at Camp Mystic, the Christian summer retreat of all girls located on the Guadalpepe River in Texas.

According to state officials, there was no rain drop in the area before pouring when the river grew 26 feet (8 m) in less than an hour.

By the evening of Saturday, at least 51 people were killed, including 15 children.

The first hint of devastation appeared on Thursday morning, when the rain and thunderstorms permeated a number of central Texas.

The National Weather Service (NWS) made a general warning called “Flood” at 13:18 this day for parts of the region, including the Cer.

In the first hours of Friday, the forecast became more terrible as the NWS issued a number of upgraded warnings. The San Saba River, the Coch River and the Colorado River increased.

At 04.03, the NWS directed a notice of a “particularly dangerous situation” reserved for the most relevant and potentially deadly scenarios such as forest fires.

Another “particularly dangerous situation” was presented for the city of Kerwil at 05.34, before dawn on Friday.

“Residents and vacationers should look for a higher soil! It is expected that the threatening floods along the river,” said forecasters.

“Automated rains indicate that a large and deadly wave of flooding moves along the Guadalpepe River. Flood flashes are already happening.”

Such alerts are divided into NWS accounts in social media and news broadcast, but most people slept.

13 -year -old Elinor Leicester said the younger hosts at the mystik camp were recorded in the cabins closer to the river shore, and they are the first floods.

“The camp was completely destroyed,” said Eleanor, who was evacuated by helicopter, the Associated Press reports. “It was really scary.”

Not far from Kerrville, BBC met Jonathan and Brittany Rohas when they came to see what was left of the relative. Only the basics remain.

Five people were in the house at night – the mother and her child were still missing.

Son -Teenage, Lion, survived after he threw the barbed wire, preventing him from moving. The boy recovers at the hospital.

When the BBC interviewed Rojas couples, the neighbor came to present them from the house.

It was a monetary bank of teenagers. On the label it says “Leo Survival Survival”.

Mystic’s parents’ mystical camp went to social media searching for news about their children.

One of the groups on Facebook – Kerrville Breaking News – turned into the missing page.

Some parents have since renewed their requests on social media to say that their missing family members have not survived.

The Keur district is located in the heart of Texas -Hill, a place for rest from the colorful hills, countless rivers and lakes and richness of the winery.

But the region is also known as “Flash Flaod Alley” from the re -threatening threat that has devastated local communities over the years.

Asked why Riverside’s summer camp was not evacuated, officials said the sudden scale of the flood caught them unexpectedly.

“Nobody knew that such a flood was coming,” said County Judge Rob Kelly.