At Least 6 Dead in TX Hill Country Flooding

OnlyGround
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We got one here in our county. Not sure about kerr county

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Damn I can’t imagine being the parents of those girls

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Fuck

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24 now confirmed dead. Girls still missing. Tomorrow will be a busy day for search and rescue/recover efforts as water recedes.

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damn. night has fallen, going to have to hold on to hope until morning. 1 or 2 being miraculously found alive is probably the best case scenario now but you never know.

:frowning:

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This seems to happen every 15 years in central Texas. It sounds awful. I assume they are young, don’t know what to do, and are surrounded by water rising fast. I lived nearby and floated those rivers quite a few times. The water has nowhere to go except downstream and fast.

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There was no warning.

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learntoswim

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Just saw a report from Hunt, TX where it looked like the water was maybe 40’ above normal river level. Up over buildings not even on the river bank.

Live stream news here.

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27 girls from the camp still missing :frowning:

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Awful, doesn’t even seem possible to have something flood 20+ feet out of nowhere.

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If the river took them girls they are gone for good, they might not surface for years

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42 dead, 15 children so far

RIP

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Sorry Tv Show GIF by Laff

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27? I thought 2 were found but were deceased?

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So they didn’t know heavy rainfalls were on the way?

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Was the flooding all or mostly in the Kerr County area ?

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not sure but i posted that after they said at the latest news conference that there were 27 girls missing from the summer camp. straight from the officials.

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This casualty count is going to go way up I bet. They actually aren’t saying how many people in total are missing because they don’t really know. So many people from all over the state vacation/camp/RV in this area, and nobody really knows who was there when this happened.
This long video I just watched of a helicopter flyover of the river up and down stream from Kerrville really shows what these searchers are facing - an impossible task of miles and miles of torn up and shifted floodway hundreds of yards wide. What a nightmare. It will take weeks or months, if ever, to find most of the missing.

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