The Camp Mystic Female Camp has announced today that they were killed in the catastrophic in the central.
“Camp Mystic mourns the deaths of 27 campers and groups from the catastrophic floods on the Guadaloup River,” the campsite management said.
The camping announcement
The report of the victims of the floods that hit Friday, the state of Texas, and is almost certain to continue to be even more heavier, local authorities announced yesterday, as long as the hopes of finding some ten children, who are still missing.
The sudden floods, caused by the heavy rains in the central part of the state, raised the river level by eight meters within 45 minutes to which the female camp was located. About 750 children participated in the camp.
The dangerous geological factor
Despite the alerts issued by the Meteorological Service since Thursday, the severity of rainfall and the speed of water level rising overnights have testified to death and destruction in the area.
The previous serious floods in the state of Texas occurred in 2017 when it was hit by Hurricane Harvey with the report of 89 dead, according to the US Ocean and Atmospheric Monitoring Service (NOAA).
Most of the victims -at least 68 -come from the County of Kerr, northwest of San Antonio, where the water level of the Guadalupe River suddenly went up.
Ker’s county is known for its mild climate, aquatic leisure parks and resorts. Among them, Camp Mystic, an 8 to 18 -year -old girls camp, is on the river and was hit hard.
Three more counties located east, near the capital of Astin, Texas, Travis, Williamson and Bernet, leaked by Guadalupe or smaller rivers also mourn victims.
In all these areas, limestone rocks are a key geological factor that increases the speed and severity of flooding phenomena by favoring the very rapid flow of water after the saturation of the soil, according to a specialist who spoke on public radio.
Why didn’t he perform the notification system
On Thursday, July 3 at an advanced afternoon, the National Weather Service, the US Meteorological Service of the Anton Antonio region, broadcast the first notification of floods in Kerd’s County and its surroundings, warning of heavy rainfall for 18 cm.
The first notice of floods is broadcast at 23.41 local time followed by the announcement of a “major” risk for Ker and Bandera’s counties. The alerts through mobile phones and radio are then broadcast.
The “Flash Flood Emergency” alerts, the highest level of alarm, follow at 04.00 and 05.30 -in an hour that many people sleep and have turned off their phones -for the County of Kerd and the banks of the Guadalupe River. Messages warn of the risk of losing lives and call for the evacuation of the zones that are expected to flood.
In the heart of the night, the water level of the Guadalupe River rises by 6 to 9 meters depending on the area, the waters flood the surrounding area, cut roads and destroy dams.
For Travis and Bernet counties, notifications are sent the next night of 4 to July 5th.
Criticism to the Trump Government
The disaster has reinstated the debate on improving alarm systems in rural areas that do not have good mobile networks, as well as the issue of coordination between local and federal authorities to ensure that notifications are emitted quickly and effectively.
The Trump government is facing criticism of cuts in NOAA, which belongs to the National Weather Service responsible for sending alerts to the population.
In February 2025, the Doge Committee, tasked with federal spending cuts, under the direction of Ilon Musk, filed redundancies at NOAA, resulting in 10% of its staff, according to the US press.
The Democratic opposition complained in May that the federal service no longer has enough experts to be prepared for meteorological disasters.
In the midst of the Texas disaster, the Trump government mobilized the FEMA federal service to deal with hurricanes, fires and other disasters. The service had just escaped the dissolution in January, as it was one of the first to be one of the first to abolish.
