by By Jane Ross
Kerrville, Texas (Reuters) -Thousands of First Responders still comb on Thursday by piles of mud covered debris in Texas Hill Country, hoping against long chances to find survivors six days after floods were swept by the region and at least 120 deaths.
A dozen states have sent search teams to Kerr County, where the vast majority of the victims were killed when the crop of water in the Guadalupe River rusted in the previous hours of July 4.
At least 96 people, including 36 children, died in Kerr County, said civil servants on a briefing on Thursday morning. Another 161 people do not remain justified. The last person found alive was Friday, according to the authorities.
The dead include 27 campers and employees of Camp Mystic, a Christian summer retreat for girls on the banks of the river. Five girls and one counselor from the camp remain missing, said civil servants.
Kerr County is in the heart of what is known as “Flash Flood Alley” in Central Texas, a region that has seen some of the deadly floods in the country.
More than a foot rain fell in less than an hour early on July 4. Flood meters showed the height of the river rose from about a foot to 34 feet (10.4 meters) in a matter of hours, over his banks and sweeping trees and structures on his path.
Hundreds of members of the community gathered at a worship service at the Tivy High School in Kerrville on Wednesday to remember the victims.
Bad students and adults, with some cuddling and stopping their tears during the monument in the school’s football stadium.
The football coach of the school, Reece Zunker, and his wife, Paula, a former teacher there, belonged to the victims. Their two children missed from Sunday, according to the school district.
“Zunker was really a heavy guy,” said art teacher Marti Garcia, who attended Wednesday’s event. “I just had faith that he would take it out.”
Authorities in Kerr County have confronted questions about whether more could have been done in the early hours of July 4 to warn residents about the rising flood water and to get some of them to higher terrain.
Years ago, the province refused to install an early system system after it has not obtained money to cover the costs.
Officials have sworn to revise the events to determine what may have gone wrong, but have emphasized that their current focus is on salvation and recovery.
The legislative power of the State will meet in a special session later this month to investigate the floods and to provide financing of disaster relief.
In the meantime, Gouverneur Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico told on Thursday to reporters who, after conversations with the domestic security secretary Kristi, had promised the federal authorities $ 15 million in disaster lighting for the mountain village of Ruiidoso, who had killed three people, including two children on Tuesday, and hundred children, and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred and hundred children, under two children, and hundred and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred children, under two children, and hundred and hundred children, and hundred and hundred children, under two children, and hundred and hundred children, under two children, and hundred and hundred children, under two children. killed.
About $ 12 million of the federal disaster financing is that was previously promised, but never paid to build dikes to protect the community against floods after forest fires last year, Lujan Grisham said.
(Reporting by Jane Ross; Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen, Rich Mckay and Andrew Hay; Writing by Joseph AX; adaptation by Chizu Nomiyama)
