Central Texas under flood watch as recovery efforts continue

(NewsNation) — Parts of cardinal Texas stay nether a flood watch overnight, much than a week aft torrential rains led to the flash-flooding successful the portion that claimed the lives of astatine slightest 129 people. Even much stay missing.

The National Weather Service said betwixt 2 and 4 inches of rainfall whitethorn autumn and officials person placed Hill Country and the Edwards Plateau nether the flood watch until 7 p.m. Sunday. Potentially affected areas see hard-hit Kerr County, wherever astir of the fatalities occurred erstwhile the Guadalupe River rapidly exceeded its banks aboriginal July 4.

Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls camp, mislaid astatine slightest 27 campers and counselors and its proprietor erstwhile rushing waters overtook the riverfront spot earlier dawn.

A assortment of agencies and volunteers continued searching done debris this play hoping to find radical who are inactive unaccounted for. President Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump visited the portion Friday.

“I’ve ne'er seen thing similar it,” the president said. “A small constrictive stream that becomes a monster.”