What you should know about flood floods of Texas and searches

By Linda Barrett On Sep 6, 2025

Kerrville, Texas (AP) – Fall floods in Texas killed more than 100 people On July fourth holiday weekend and still missing points, including girls who took part in a summer camp. The devastation along the Guadalupe River outside of San Antonio has a massive search for the search Officials ask questions About your willingness and speed of your initial actions.

Here is what you should know about the knowledge Deadly floodsThe colossal Weather system That was the case in and around Kerr County and the efforts to identify victims:

The massive rain beat at the wrong time, in a place at risk of flood

The Floods grew to their worst As many people slept.

The Texas Hillland in the central part of the state is of course susceptible to floods, since the dry, dirty areas in which the floor slides the rain along the surface of the landscape instead of sucking it up. The floods on Friday started with a particularly bad storm, which most of its 12 inches (30 centimeters) rain dropped in the dark early morning hours.

People climb over debris on a bridge on the Guadalupe River after a flood of falls on Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Ingram, Texas, was swept through the area. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

After a middle tone on Thursday after a flood observation, the National Weather Service Office published an urgent warning around 4 a.m., which increased the potential of catastrophic damage and a serious threat to human life. At least 5:20 a.m., some in the Kerrville area say that the water level is alarming. The massive rain that flowed downhill sent a rushing water into the Guadalupe river, which led to it rose by 26 feet (8 meters) in just 45 minutes.

The number of fatalities is expected to increase and the number of errors has jumped

In Kerr County, in which youth camps lived in Texas Hill Country, seekers found the corpses of 87 people, including 30 children, said Sheriff Larry Leitha on Tuesday. Deaths in the nearby counties have brought the total number of deaths to at least 107.

More than 160 people were missing, said governor Greg Abbott. He said that many of these people lived in Texas Hill Country, but had not registered in a camp or hotel. The number of missing people after the authorities had set up a hotline for missing person.

Search teams will not stop working until everyone is found, the authorities said.

Five girls and one consultant have not yet been taken into account in Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the river.

The tragedy for earlier camper converted happy memories into mourning.

Marissa Zachry takes a moment while looking for survivors at the Guadalupe River on Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle about AP)

Workers are looking for large stacks of rubble

Lieutenant Colonel Ben Baker from the Texas Game Wards said on Tuesday that there were more than 440 rescues from flood victims, although officials said the last live rescue was Friday. Baker said the authorities had searched 42 kilometers of river.

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The authorities used dogs to search great piles of flood waste to find body.

“Specialized teams have to go in layer by layer,” said Baker. “It is extremely treacherous, time -consuming. It is dirty work. The water is still there.”

AP photographers have the extent of the destruction grasped and one of the largest in Texas Rescue and recovery efforts.

President Donald Trump said that he planned to visit the Flutzone on Friday.

Officials are about to check the flood flood warnings

The survivors have the floods as described “Pech -black wall of death” And said they had not received any emergency warnings.

The judge of Kerr County Rob Kelly, who lives on the Guadalupe River, said on Saturday that ” Nobody saw it coming. “” “Officials have described it as “100-year flood”, what that the water level was highly unlikely due to the historical recording.

However, local officials have known for decades that Floods were a serious risk In the region, a district government report warned last year that the threat deteriorated.

Volunteers are looking for missing people on the banks of the Guadalupe River for the recent floods on Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Rodolfo Gonzalez)

Officials also found that another flood was likely next year and that “future worse flood events” could be more serious than that of the past, according to the report.

Questions about warning campers earlier

Have civil servants investigate About why residents and youth summer camps on the river were not alerted earlier than 4 a.m. or were asked to evacuate.

Leitha said on Tuesday that he only informed the fall floods between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. on Friday. During a press conference, Reporters urged him about who previously headed emergency operations, and he said he had not put together a timeline.

“This is not my priority,” he said. “There are three priorities: this is the people out there and identified and notify the next relatives.”

Dalton Rice, Manager of Kerrville City, said on Monday that the spotty cell service in some of the isolated areas of Kerr County and Cell Towers, who could not be put into operation during the weather, could have hindered communication between authorities and camps.

The parishioners Lisa Reitz will receive on Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas, doses with food and other donations for sales in the Hunt Baptist Church along the Guadalupe River. (AP Photo/Rodolfo Gonzalez)

Officials from the district of Kerr said they had submitted a proposal for a more robust flood warning system, similar to a tornado warning system, but the members of the public raised at costs.