‘Nothing like this’: Texas floods leave 43 dead, dozens of girls missing from riverside summer camp
People look on as law enforcement and volunteers continue to search for missing people near Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas July 5, 2025. — AFP pic
Sunday, 06 Jul 2025 8:53 AM MYT
HUNT (Texas), July 6 — Rescuers searched yesterday for 27 girls missing from a riverside summer camp in the US state of Texas, after torrential rains caused devastating flooding that killed at least 43 people — with more rain pounding the region.
“We have recovered 43 deceased individuals in Kerr County. Among these who are deceased we have 28 adults and 15 children,” said Kerr Country Sheriff Larry Leitha.
Leitha earlier put the number of evacuated people at 850, including eight reported injured.
Addressing a press conference, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he was expanding a state disaster declaration and was requesting additional federal resources from US President Donald Trump.
Texas Department of Emergency Management chief Nim Kidd said air, ground and water-based crews were scouring the length of the Guadalupe River for survivors and the bodies of the dead.
“We will continue the search until all those who are missing are found,” he said.
The flooding began Friday — the start of the fourth of July holiday weekend — as months’ worth of rain fell in a matter of hours, causing the Guadalupe River to rise by 26 feet (eight meters) in 45 minutes.
The National Weather Service (NWS) warned that more rain was forecast, and that “excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.”
Multiple flash flood warnings remained in place over the weekend in central Texas.
In Kerrville yesterday, the usually calm Guadalupe was flowing fast, its murky waters filled with debris.
“The water reached the top of the trees. About 10 meters or so,” said local resident Gerardo Martinez, 61. “Cars, whole houses were going down the river.”
Flash floods, which occur when the ground is unable to absorb torrential rainfall, are not unusual.
But scientists say that in recent years human-driven climate change has made extreme weather events like floods, droughts and heat waves more frequent and more intense.
Devastation at Camp Mystic
Yesterday, Sheriff Leitha said 27 children from the Camp Mystic Christian summer camp in the flooded Kerr County were still missing. Around 750 girls were enrolled at the camp.
US media reported that four of the missing girls were dead, citing their families.
The camp, located along the banks of the Guadalupe, was a picture of disarray, with blankets, mattresses, teddy bears and other belongings caked in mud.
The windows of camp cabins were shattered, apparently by the force of the water.
Michael, who only gave AFP his first name, was searching the camp for his eight-year-old daughter.
“I was in Austin and drove down yesterday morning, once we heard about it,” he said, adding that he was hoping for a “miracle.”
The Heart O’ The Hills summer camp, located about a mile from Camp Mystic, confirmed yesterday that its director Jane Ragsdale was among the dead.
‘Catastrophic’
Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem told a press conference that Trump wanted to “upgrade the technologies” at the weather service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Trump’s administration has faced criticism from scientists and disaster management agencies after cutting funding and hundreds of staff at the NOAA, in charge of weather forecasts and preparedness, and the NWS.
“We need to renew this ancient system,” Noem said.
When asked about claims that residents were given insufficient warning of the floods, Noem said she would “carry your concerns back to the federal government.”
Officials have said the speed and level of flooding was shocking.
“We didn’t know this flood was coming,” Kerr County official Rob Kelly said Friday.
Kerrville city official Dalton Rice said rescuers were facing “very difficult” conditions, warning people against traveling to the site.
Rice added it was not known how many people may have been visiting the popular camping area, and declined to give an overall figure for how many were missing.
Soila Reyna, 55, a Kerrville resident who works at a local church helping people who lost their belongings, witnessed the devastation unfold.
“It has been years since we had a flood, but nothing like this,” Reyna said.
“Nothing like as catastrophic as this, where it involved children, people and just the loss of people’s houses... It’s just crazy,” she added.
With rescuers fanning out across the region, Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring urged the community to come together.
“People need to know today will be a hard day,” he said. — AFP
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kt comments:
WankeeLand or not, children are children - it's heart-breaking.
Heartbreaking...but open reporting without suppression..unlike CCP which has lost 10x that number of dead China floods, but those who only follow CCP approved news totally unaware of it.
ReplyDeleteMonster just has to sneak in something awful tasting, can;'t help it, t's your DNA lah
Deletetypically western sycophantic fart of no brainer!
DeleteBad western news can be read as good while similar bad news in China is interpreted as system fault!
Indeed, deeply meme-ed anmokausai indoctrination.
Conspiracy theory coming true. The mark is everywhere...just lift the head and voila, it is right above you in sky. Still has today, Klang Valley, Penang, Singapore, Australia, UK, wedding photo, holiday photo in a gondola in Venice, news reporting etc, etc, etc...
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/toobaffled/status/1942026751170998504?s=19
Steve Jarvis shares about the floods in Texas
https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/1941519965711909197?s=19
🚨 BREAKING: WEATHER MODIFICATION BILL HITS CONGRESS: GEOENGINEERING TO BE A FELONY
Congress just took a wrecking ball to “conspiracy theories.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has officially introduced a bill that would make it a felony to inject or release chemicals into the atmosphere to alter weather, climate, or sunlight.
The bill targets cloud seeding, solar geoengineering, and climate control experiments.
She says this is about ending the dangerous and deadly practice of weather manipulation.
They called it fake. They mocked it. Now it’s banned.
That doesn’t happen… unless it was real all along.
https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1941482077729255695?s=19
I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense.
I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill.
It will be similar to Florida’s Senate Bill 56.
We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering.
https://x.com/EpochTimes/status/1918299516773531861?s=19
The Florida Legislature became the first in the nation to pass a bill criminalizing methods of weather modification and bioengineering activities such as cloud seeding.
SB 56, now bound for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk, states, “The injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight is prohibited.”
https://x.com/KristyTallman/status/1928868667552575779?s=19
LOUISIANA BANS WEATHER MODIFICATION PROGRAMS 🌩️
SB46, the bill banning chemtrails, geoengineering, cloud seeding, and weather modification in Louisiana, has officially passed the House.
https://t.me/professor_patriot_official/38553
DeleteOur conspiracy theory inventory is about at zero. Another one has bit the dust.
https://fxtwitter.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1943308880005533947?s=19
Surprise surprise…
The U.S. government has officially confirmed they are Spraying Chemicals in the Sky, Altering the Atmosphere and Weather
A report, published by the The FAA, NASA, NOAA calls them “contrails”, but generally admit that they’re spraying substances that linger in the sky, alter the weather, and affect temperature on the Earth.
• Short-Lived Contrails, as their name implies, disappear within minutes of their formation. These contrails form and dissipate quickly because the atmosphere is too dry to sustain them. Because of their short lifetime, these contrails typically have a minimal impact on the atmosphere.
• Persistent non-spreading contrails can remain visible and retain their linear features for hours to days. These contrails form in ice supersaturated regions of the atmosphere and are likely to be more impactful than short-lived contrails. Persistent non-spreading contrails are easily identified from the ground and satellites as being formed from aviation activity.
• Persistent spreading contrail cirrus, like persistent non-spreading contrails, form in ice supersaturated regions of the atmosphere and can last for hours to days. They are characterized by their tendency to widen and spread, eventually covering areas that can span several hundred kilometers. Because of their longer lifetime and wider geographical extent, contrail cirrus are likely to have the most significant impact on the atmosphere. Contrail cirrus can be difficult to distinguish from naturally occurring cirrus clouds.
They openly admit these chemicals they’re spraying spread to vast areas, and literally alter the weather.
Those of us who have been pointing this out for years were dismissed and called conspiracy theorists.
@epaleezeldin
FAA Report
faa.gov/about/office_o…
https://x.com/RealDutchsinse/status/1943332160166826382?s=19
ReplyDeleteThe US Government apparently did major weather modification to rain out the hippies at the famous 1969 Woodstock Festival!
Not my words, these are the words of the people who were there at the time, and captured on film saying it!
Yes, this is real, not made by ai.
It comes from the original woodstock documentary recorded at the time to document the event!
Turns out that nefarious weather modification indeed works as intended, and is kept somewhat secret even to this very day (for obvious reasons kept secret and is pigeonholed as "conspiracy" level when talked about).
Denying it though, that's somewhat foolish in my opinion.