Texas families plead for information on more than 20 girls missing from summer camp after floods

Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters connected societal media with pleas for accusation arsenic more than 20 campers from an all-girls summertime campy were unaccounted for Friday aft floods tore done the state's south-central region.

At slightest 13 radical were dormant Friday and dozens missing aft months worthy of dense rainfall fell successful a substance of hours connected Texas Hill Country, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said. The flood-prone portion is dotted with century-old summertime camps that gully thousands of kids annually from crossed the Lone Star State.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said astir 23 girls attending Camp Mystic, a Christian campy on the Guadalupe River successful Hunt, Texas, were unaccounted for Friday afternoon. Search teams were moving to behaviour chopper and vessel rescues successful the fast-moving floodwaters.

“I’m asking the radical of Texas, bash immoderate superior praying this day — on-your-knees benignant of praying — that we find these young girls,” Patrick said.

Dozens of families shared successful section Facebook groups that they received devastating telephone calls from information officials informing them that their daughters had not yet been located among the washed-away campy cabins and downed trees.

Camp Mystic said successful an email to parents that if they person not been contacted directly, their kid is accounted for.

The campy sits connected portion known arsenic “flash flood alley,” said Austin Dickson, CEO of the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, a charitable endowment that is collecting donations to assistance nonprofits responding to the disaster.

“When it rains, h2o doesn’t soak into the soil,” Dickson said. “It rushes down the hill.”

Camp leaders said they are without power, Wi-Fi and moving water, and the road starring to the campy has washed away.

Two different camps connected the river, Camp Waldemar and Camp La Junta, said successful Instagram posts that each campers and unit determination were safe.

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