A ‘devastating and deadly’ flood in central Texas has wiped out entire homes, RV communities and possibly swept away dozens of summer camps across the region.
The Guadalupe River rapidly rose by more than 22-feet overnight, before breaking its banks and overtaking several small, rural towns across Kerr County.
Parents of campers are franticly trying to get in touch with their children as emergency warnings and disaster declarations have been put in place.
But Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the top official in the county, has seemingly dismissed their concerns as he urged parents to ‘call the camps’ directly – even though there are widespread power outages across the region.
‘We have a lot of camps. I don’t know any specifics about any of the individual camps, but what I do know is everyone is doing their very best trying to identify as much as they can,’ Kelly said during a press conference today.
When further pressed about the welfare of the county’s youth, the judge snapped back saying officials ‘did not know this flood was coming’.
The catastrophic flooding has killed at least six prompted and prompted dozens of swift-water rescues across the region as river water levels near record-highs.
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