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(NewsNation) — With the search for victims successful the Central Texas floods present already a fewer days old, stories of volunteers racing to the communities to bash immoderate they tin to assistance person made the rounds.
Among those volunteers are 2 men, Greg Froelick and Brooks Holzhausen, some a portion of the radical "300 Justice Road." Froelick is simply a erstwhile Navy SEAL, and Holzhausen is the begetter of 2 of the erstwhile campy counselors astatine Camp Mystic.
Camp Mystic was ravaged by the incidental and lost 27 people successful the process, with respective inactive missing.
"When we got retired present Saturday, we cleared a batch wherever we were," Froelick said. "But, you're talking cars wrapped astir trees divided successful half, debris piled up 20 feet high, guardrails twisted up. I don't adjacent cognize however to picture it. It's axenic destruction."
The challenges facing volunteers similar Froelick and Holzhausen are besides conscionable witnessing the carnage of full areas being destroyed and moving done the terrain.
"Debris, operation debris," Holzhausen added. "Houses that are decimated by the interaction of the powerfulness of Mother Nature. There's radical successful there, that were successful determination that night. So, you effort to get your caput astir that. And conscionable seeing the terrain certainly, and each the immense nests. Our guys are taking those isolated to see, to spot what's wrong to effort and get the kids home, effort to get brothers oregon sisters, uncles, aunts. So galore radical are affected by it."
Holzhausen added that helium and his squad person zeroed successful connected searching astir the Camp Mystic property, having spent 2 days conscionable beneath the Mystic Dam.
"We're moving some sides of the river," helium said. "One broadside of the river, the westbound broadside of the river, is simply a bluff. It's each got to beryllium sifted through. So that's been our focus. And with the cloth these men are chopped from, our squad is chopped from, we don't bash thing haphazard. It's important for america to bash it the close way. We person a batch of guys truly hustling and trying hard to execute that."
In presumption of however agelong it volition instrumentality for areas to beryllium thoroughly searched, some men unequivocally said it could instrumentality months. One pistillate was recovered live 20 miles distant from her past known determination owed to however beardown the existent was, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
"If you commencement from the campy until wherever this idiosyncratic was found, you're talking astir 20 miles," Froelick acknowledged. "You're talking astir a span of 400 yards crossed that you're searching astatine the bosom of it. It's worse than this. The magnitude of world that moved down from wherever this started, present the crushed is astatine a antithetic level."
As of Monday evening, 104 radical were confirmed dead, and galore were inactive missing successful the aftermath of the floods.
