Two weeks after the floods that has killed over 100 folks within the Texas Hill Nation, officers now say the variety of lacking folks has considerably dropped.
KERR COUNTY, Texas — The variety of lacking folks in Kerr County from the devastating July Fourth floods has dropped from over 160 to 3, based on the Kerr County Flood Catastrophe Joint Data Heart.
“By means of in depth follow-up work amongst state and native businesses, many people who had been initially reported as lacking have been verified as protected and faraway from the listing,” the Metropolis of Kerrville mentioned in a press release.
Kerrville Metropolis Supervisor Dalton Rice thanked greater than 1,000 native, state and federal authorities for his or her laborious work over the past two weeks.
Restoration efforts are nonetheless persevering with all through the Guadalupe River as groups proceed to attempt to reunite households.
“Our ideas stay with the households nonetheless awaiting information, and we’ll proceed to face with them as efforts persist,” Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. added.
Officers have confirmed that 107 folks have died within the Kerr County floods, together with 70 adults and 37 youngsters.
Greater than 2,000 native, state and federal personnel are concerned within the ongoing search and restoration operations. Their efforts have been bolstered by greater than 12,000 volunteers pitching in over the previous a number of days to search for survivors and guarantee first responders and victims have what they want.
An unknown variety of campers stay lacking from Camp Mystic, the beloved all-girls Christian camp in Hunt that was struck notably laborious by the floods on July Fourth. Greater than 700 folks had been on the camp the morning of July Fourth.
Camp employees mentioned 27 of its younger campers and counselors had been killed, together with Dick Eastland, Mystic’s govt director.
Final Saturday, the camp in a press release thanked its counselors “that embodied the Mystic Spirit and put their campers first as they guided them to security.”
To see extra tales that we and our sister stations have instructed concerning the flooding that has devastated the Texas Hill Nation, be certain that to look at our new particular: “Hearts and Heroes: Flooding within the Texas Hill Nation.”
