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Heartbreaking visuals show the aftermath showed belongings of girls and other campers outside Camp Mystic. People place a cross near the Guadalupe River in honour of those who lost their lives. A counselor and three children from Camp Mystic are still unaccounted for.
More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.
Radar data can estimate rainfall to a fairly accurate amount. The rain data in the case of the deadly tragedy that unfolded in the Texas Hill Country last weekend shows exactly why the area around Camp Mystic and the Guadalupe River, outside of San Antonio, had such a raging flash flood.
Kerr County was the worst-hit, recording at least 84 of the 104 confirmed deaths, including 28 children. In haunting scenes, floodwaters reached the treetops and cabin roofs, destroying windows and leaving blankets and toys caked in mud. Volunteers, many with personal ties to the victims, are combing through the debris.
The Coast Guard team aboard Rescue 6553 saved nearly 200 people trapped by the deadly floods in Texas this past week.
The Texas music legend, whose daughters grew up attending Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River, is plotting a benefit concert and trying to make sense of an incomprehensible tragedy
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Midland Reporter-Telegram on MSNMidlanders tie green bows on trees honor Texas Hill Country flood victimsAcross Texas, green bows are starting to adorn trees, honoring the lives lost and the communities impacted by the devastating Texas Hill County floods. The flash floods over the Fourth of July weekend killed more than 100 people, and an unknown number are still missing.
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The disaster's total death toll reached two dozen by Friday night, with many people still missing after catastrophic flooding along the Guadalupe River.