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(NewsNation) — As recovery efforts proceed aft deadly floods successful cardinal Texas past week, neighboring New Mexico is facing flooding of its own.
At slightest 3 radical — 2 children and 1 big — were killed Tuesday night, and dozens were rescued aft New Mexico's Rio Ruidoso roseate a record-breaking 20 feet successful astir 30 minutes Tuesday, NewsNation section affiliate KRQE reported.
“We started the greeting with a flash flood ticker from the National Weather Service, truthful we knew determination was thing astir apt connected the horizon,” said Kerry Gladden, the colony of Ruidoso's nationalist accusation officer.
As New Mexico and Texas grip these historical floods, Gladden told KRQE she hopes everyone takes upwind alerts earnestly moving forward.
More than 170 missing successful Texas flooding arsenic decease toll climbs
At slightest 111 people person been confirmed dead, and 172 are inactive missing successful cardinal Texas pursuing Fourth of July floods spurred connected by monolithic rainfall, according to Nexstar affiliate KXAN.
“We are not leaving until this occupation is finished,” said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. “The superior occupation close present is locating everybody who was affected by this flood.”
First responders transportation retired hunt and rescue operations adjacent the Guadalupe River aft a flash flood swept done the area, Monday, July 7, 2025, successful Ingram, Texas. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman)
People assistance during clean-up efforts astatine Guadalupe Keys Resort, an RV parkland successful Center Point, Texas, aft flooding, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
People survey the harm astatine Guadalupe Keys Resort, an RV parkland successful Center Point, Texas, aft flooding, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Crews enactment to wide debris from the Cade Loop span on the Guadalupe River connected July 5, 2025, successful Ingram, Texas. (AP Photo/Rodolfo Gonzalez)
A flood gauge marks the tallness of h2o flowing implicit a farm-to-market roadworthy adjacent Kerrville, Texas, connected Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Abbot confirmed Tuesday that 161 radical are missing successful Kerr County alone, including 5 children and 1 counsellor from Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summertime camp.
Searchers past made a unrecorded rescue connected Friday, the aforesaid time early-morning floods inundated the state’s Hill Country, according to a Kerrville Police Department official.
Camp Mystic's catastrophe program approved 2 days earlier Texas flooding
The Department of State Health Services released records Tuesday showing the campy complied with a big of authorities regulations regarding “procedures to beryllium implemented successful lawsuit of a disaster" arsenic precocious arsenic July 2.
The regulations included instructing campers connected what to bash successful the lawsuit of an evacuation and assigning circumstantial duties to each unit subordinate and counselor.
Campers' belongings beryllium extracurricular 1 of Camp Mystic's cabins adjacent the Guadalupe River aft a flash flood swept done the country July 7, 2025, successful Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman)
Officials hunt connected the grounds of Camp Mystic on the banks of the Guadalupe River aft a flash flood swept done the country July 6, 2025, successful Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
A Camp Mystic mailbox is seen adjacent the entranceway to the constitution on the banks of the Guadalupe River aft a flash flood swept done the country July 5, 2025, successful Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
A plush artifact sits connected the crushed extracurricular of a compartment astatine Camp Mystic, the tract of wherever astatine slightest 20 girls went missing aft flash flooding successful Hunt, Texas, connected July 5, 2025. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / GETTY-AFP) 
Rescuers were connected Saturday searching for much than 20 girls missing from Camp Mystic successful Texas aft torrential rains caused devastating flooding that killed astatine slightest 27 radical — with much rainfall connected the way. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / GETTY-AFP)
The Texas Department of State Health Services told KXAN it does not support copies of those plans, but camps are required to station plans intelligibly successful each building.
“DSHS reviews the camp’s exigency plans onsite during their yearly inspection for the close elements listed successful the Texas Administrative Code,” the DSHS spokesperson added.
NewsNation gets wrong look astatine National Weather Service
In the aftermath of the floods successful central Texas, galore eyes person turned to the National Weather Service and its protocols for upwind warnings.
The NWS, which has 122 offices crossed the country, has said it issued timely alerts successful beforehand of the deadly floods connected July 3 and accelerated them astir 1 a.m. connected July 4. It acknowledged forecasts are lone 1 facet of a effect and that section instrumentality enforcement indispensable beryllium capable to construe those warnings, pass them to the nationalist and assistance communities hole for safety.
“Once we get to the informing stage, that tin beryllium anyplace from a fewer minutes to possibly an hr oregon truthful depending connected however the tempest is evolving, however apt the menace is and however important it mightiness be,” said Mike Bardou, NWS informing coordinator meteorologist and elder forecaster.
Experts said that a flood informing strategy was deemed excessively costly by Kerr County. Local officials acknowledged that installing a flood informing strategy successful 2017 was not feasible, arsenic the region mislaid retired connected a bid to unafraid a $1 cardinal assistance to money the project.
NewsNation's Rob Taub, Alex Caprariello and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
