The Information Portal of the Kerville community showed tributes to the victims of the town, including the owner and director of the camp, Dick Eastland.
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, declared that he will expand the statement of disaster state, while requested additional federal resources from President Donald Trump.
“Texas will do everything possible to ensure that all missing persons are found,” the governor wrote in the social network X.
Meanwhile, air, land and aquatic equipment tracks along the Guadalupe River in search of survivors and corpses, said the head of the Texas Emergency Management Department, Nim Kidd.
“We will continue looking until we find all the disappeared,” Kidd said.
Officials and residents were equally impressed by the level of intensity and speed of floods.
“The predictions were definitely bad” and the rain was “twice as much as anticipated,” said Dalton Rice, Kerville official.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, “will arrive soon at the scene,” Trump said in her social truth network. The first lady “Melania and I pray for all the families affected by this horrible tragedy,” he added.
Noem said the coastal guard is “challenging storms” to evacuate trapped residents, and promised in a message on social network X to continue working “all the time as possible.”
Some 500 rescuers and 14 helicopters were deployed, while the National Guard and the Texas Coast Guard sent reinforcements.
According to the authorities, the Guadalupe River grew about eight meters in 45 minutes. According to the weather service, more than 300 millimeters of rain fell during the night, a third of the average rainfall in a whole year.
In mid -June, 13 people died in San Antonio due to floods caused by floods.
Sudden floods, which occur when the ground is not able to absorb torrential rains, are not unusual.
But scientists affirm that in recent years climate change caused by human being has made extreme events such as floods, droughts and heat waves more frequent and intense.
