Texas leaders are avoiding questions about the state’s response to the devastating flash floods, despite the fact that at least 120 people have been murdered and 173 more are missing.
On Friday, the Guadalupe River overflowed its banks, leaving Kerr County at the epicenter of the catastrophe. According to officials on Thursday, 36 children are among the 96 persons who have died in the area. In the county, at least 161 more people were still unaccounted for.
There are growing concerns about what more could have been done by federal, state, and municipal authorities to alert citizens to the floods. According to Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha, his office is “in the process” of compiling a timeline of the steps local authorities took before to the catastrophe.
Twenty-seven students and employees from Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp located on the Guadalupe River, are among the deceased. One 19-year-old counselor and five campers were still unaccounted for.
According to a New York Times investigation, a number of the cottages were constructed on “extremely hazardous” floodways, where water flows at its deepest and fastest rates. The camp had a written emergency plan in place and had passed its yearly state safety inspection just two days before to the storm.
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