How fast is the mobile flood torn in central Texas

Warning signs have flashed as hundreds of young people celebrated the All-Girl Christian Summer Retreat on the banks of the Guadalupe River, Texas, on the July 4 public holiday Mystic.

According to state officials, rainwater in the area has been flooding 26 feet (8 million) until it has been flooded within less than an hour.

By Saturday afternoon, at least 43 people had died, including 15 children.

The first hint of the disaster came on Thursday morning as rain and thunderstorms soaked many central counties.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a general warning at 13:18 p.m. that day, saying the area includes Kerr County.

In the early hours of Friday, the outlook became even more terrifying as the NWS issued a series of upgrade warnings. The San Saba River, Concho River and Colorado River are rising.

On 04.03, the NWS issued a “specially dangerous situation” alert, retaining the most urgent and most likely deadly scenarios, such as wildfires.

Before dawn on Friday, 05.34 issued another “specially dangerous situation” to the city of Kerrville.

“Residents and campers should now seek higher ground! Life is expected to flood along the river,” the forecaster said.

“The automatic rainfall scale shows huge and deadly flooding along the Guadalupe River. Flash floods have already occurred.”

Such alerts are shared on NWS social media accounts and broadcast news media, but most people are sleeping.

In the cabin near the river bank, young campers at Mystic campground were buried, the first flood, said Elinor Lester, 13.

“The camp was completely destroyed,” Ellino, who evacuated the helicopter, told the Associated Press. “It’s really scary.”

Outside Kerrville, the BBC met Jonathan and Brittany Rojas as they came to see what was left of the relative’s house. Only the foundation remains.

On a flood night, there were five people in the house – the mother and her children were still missing.

Teenage son Leo survived his tangled wire, preventing him from being swept away. The boy is recovering in the hospital.

When the BBC interviewed the Rojas, a neighbor came up and showed them items rescued from the house.

That was the boy’s piggy bank. Its label says “Leo’s Survival Kit”.

Parents of desperate mysterious camp go to social media to find news about their children.

A Facebook group – Kerrville Breaking News – turned into a missing person page.

Since then, some parents have updated their social media requests, saying that their missing family members cannot survive.

Kerr County is the center of Texas Hill Country, a scenic hill, countless rivers and lakes, and a rich winery, which is a resort.

But the area is also known as the “From Torrent Lane” because it has suffered repeated threats from local communities over the years.

Asked why the Riverside Summer Camp was not evacuated, officials said the sudden scale of the flood made them pointless.

“No one knows that this flood is coming,” said Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly.