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At least 150 people are missing in Ker County in Texas

At least 150 people are missing in Ker County in Texas

Watch: Texas resident stood on the electric box for three hours and survived the flood

State officials said that state officials said that at least 150 people are missing in a single Texas County, five days after the flood, a deadly and destructive flash.

Missing in the Hard-Hit Ker County consists of five campers and a counselor of the Camp Mistic, a Christian all-gourd summer camp located on the banks of the Gwadalup River.

According to the latest County-by-County toll, at least 119 people have been killed in disaster. Officials confirmed that 95 were in Kerville region.

Texas is not alone. Neighbors New Mexico saw a flash flood emergency on Tuesday, killing at least three people.

Officials said that there was rain for 8.8 cm (3.5in), causing the river water to provoke Rudioso village. That flood has now started again.

In Texas, frantic discovery and rescue efforts are on, Governor Greg Abtut will not stop until the emergency employees are accounted for “until every missing person”.

Abbott said that it was very likely that the list would be missing more in the list in the coming days, and urged people to report to anyone that they feel that they felt it was unaware.

Texas National Guard General Thomas Suez said that the search efforts were being used by Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters with rescue.

He said that 13 black hawk helicopters were helping in search of search, which included four coming from Arkansas. Officers are also using reaper drones.

Responsible to various agencies are working together on rescue efforts. These include border petrol, FBI and National Guard agents.

More than 250 respondents of various agencies have been assigned to the Kerville region alone to help in search and rescue.

One of the rescue volunteers named Tim told the BBC that he had never seen any destruction on this scale before.

“I have lowered floods in East Texas and South -East Texas, and storm, and this is a bad dream,” he said.

Another rescue volunteer, named Justin, compared the attempt of “trying to find the same grass in a histor”.

He said, “There is a wide footpath of destruction for miles, and not enough cadver dogs to go through it,” he told the BBC.

“It is difficult to use it very much with heavy machinery. People are trying to take it with equipment and hands, and they are not even breaching into it – not for lack of effort.”

Questions have been raised about whether the authorities had warned of sufficient floods before the disaster, and why people were not evacuated earlier.

Experts say that Texas contributed to the tragedy, including extreme weather, holiday houses, and location of time.

Abbott, who had spent the day part in the survey of the flood sector, said that the authorities had issued a storm warning and a potential flash was known about the flood, but “the horrors of the storm did not know”.

He said that no one knew that it would lead to “30-foot high tsunami water wall”.

The governor replied to a question that who was for “defect” for heavy death, saying “It is a word of losers’ choice.”

He created a game analogy, stating that the American football team makes mistakes; The champion teams are those that “do not indicate fingers”.

Most of the victims died in Ker County, where the fourth public holiday of July was swollen due to the decline of torrential the Gwadalup river before the day’s time on Friday.

Camp Mistic had earlier confirmed that at least 27 girls and employees were among the dead.

Those who survived are now focused on trying to rebuild.

Justin Brown has been with the Gwadalup River for over 25 years.

A week ago, he lived in his mobile house at Blue Oak RV Park with his two young daughters and dogs. Now, there is a huge puddle where his house was standing once – his RV was swept away in the flood.

Mr. Brown told the BBC, “We were one of the few parks that used to exclude almost everyone,”

Looking out on the vacant ground where his house was standing once – now only rubble – he said that he expects to return as soon as possible.

President Donald Trump will travel to flood -filled areas with First Lady Melania Trump on Friday.

In neighboring New Mexico, the National Weather Service (NWS) officials on Tuesday announced a flash flood emergency and told the residents of Ruidoso on high alert for floods.

The NWS said that a flood wave on Rio Rideoso reached a height of 15 feet. The houses were swept away under the river, and a man and two children were killed.

The officials there are working with the boats so that they can work to save the trapped people. Till Tuesday evening, many locals were unaware.

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