Young campers seen crying and singing songs in videos when the evacuated Texas floods

A nurse, who worked at the Christian summer camp there Several girls disappeared in the middle of it devastating lightning flows that beat central TexasShared pictures of Campers’ upcoming escape.

Camp Nurse Devon Paige had worked at Camp Mystic A 100-year camp that has served as a summer trip for such as future first ladies and the presidents’ daughters, per Politician – When the Guadalupe river began to grow in the middle of historical lightning flows in the region on July 4.

In videos on TiktokPaige detailed how many of Mystics hundreds of campers escaped on buses and on the back of law enforcement vehicles when their belongings and cottages were swept away by the flood.

“These are pictures from my evacuation and all I saw,” she -texted she A video. “I wish you could see” before “pictures to show how really devastating it is.”

A clip showed a large group of girls who sat still on the back of a bus when they were driven to a reunion point to meet their parents – and everyone sang worshiping during the trip “to try to calm everyone,” Paige wrote.

Another Harvig clip Published in Paige’s account showed that the nurse and several other adults’ reactions to the cars were turned by the flood and the trees ripped off the ground, taken from the back of a legislative vehicle when they shouted, “Oh, my God!”

“Half of the camp is on a hill,” she wrote in a comment under the post and describes how many employees and campers came to the top of the hill and sought safety. “We had no idea of ​​the size.”

Ten girls and a counselor from Camp Mystic are still not reported, said the authorities Per CNN.

Two families have also confirmed that they lost their daughters in the flood. Purple bonner and eloise peck died after Camp Mystic was abundant by the rainwollen flood water, Fox Affiliate KDFW and NBC Affiliate Kxas reported. Lila’s death was also confirmed to people by her relatives.

On one statement to peopleShared on Saturday, July 5, Lila’s family said they were “heartbroken.”

“In the midst of our unthinkable grief, we ask for integrity and cannot confirm any details right now,” they added. “We ache with everyone who loved her and praying endlessly for others to be spared from this tragic loss.”

In addition Kansas City Star and New York Times On Sunday reported that 9-year-old Janie Hunt, a relative of Kansas City Chief’s CEO and chairman Clark Hunt, was killed in the floods. Clark’s wife, Tavia Hunt, shared a post on her Instagram stories and wrote, “our hearts are broken by the devastation from the floods in Wimberley and the tragic loss of many lives – including an expensive little hunting cousin, along with several friend’s little girls.”

Per it BBCCampers Sarah Marsh, a third class and 8-year-old Renee Smajstrla died too.

“Renee has been found and although it was not the result we prayed for, the social media probably helped outreach the first answers to help identify her so quickly,” wrote her uncle Shawn Salta on social media, according to the BBC.

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“We are grateful that she was with her friends and had the time in her life, as shown in this picture from yesterday,” Salta added. “She will always live her best life at Camp Mystic.”

In addition, Richard “Dick” EastlandA father of four and the owner of the private Christian camp is among those who have died, according to Texas Public RadioThe New York Times And other reports.

“(H) is the last act of kindness and victim was to save to save the life of the campers,” wrote a friend, Paige W. Sumner, in a tribute to him in local Kerrville’s daily times.

Dick and his wife, Tweety Eastland, had been in the camp since 1974 and was Third generation managers of the facility, which has been in their family since 1939, according to Camp mystical site.

Floods in the Guadalupe river made it reach its The second highest altitude ever, ABC News reported. The area received at least 10 inches of rain, per San Antonio outlet Ksat.

Kerr County, which is about 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, has been particularly hit by the floods. The city of Kerrville explained a emergency Due to the floods, while Hunt (even in Kerr County) experienced more than six inches of rain in three hours on Friday, which is a “1-in-00-year-old event” in the region, according to CNN.

CNN reported that the flooded region experienced “more than a whole summer rain value” in a few hours.

“This could be a flood once in a lifetime,” Clint Morris, a spokesman for Kerr County Sheriff’s Office, told Ksat. He added that it was “an extremely active scene, county throughout the country.”

The Associated Press Reported that from Sunday evening the death has risen to 79, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said there were still 41 people in the entire state.