According to Bob Fogarti, a meteorologist in the National Department of the Ostin/San Antonio weather service, river water supply in the hunt registered 22 feet (6.7 meters) in about two hours. The sensor was damaged after recording a height of 29 and a half feet (9 meters).
“Water moves very quickly, you will not understand how bad it is until the water is over you,” said Fogarti.
On the Facebook page of the office of the Sheriff Kerr district, people upload photos of their loved ones and asked to help them find them.
According to the lieutenant, the governor of Texas and Patrick, at least 400 people entered the field to help react to emergency situations. Nine rescue teams, 14 helicopters and 12 Wirawak aircraft were deployed, and several people were saved from trees.
According to Patrick, about 23 out of 750 girls who visited the mystical camp, including those whose existence.
The search team did “everything that we can do to find everyone we can,” he said.
In Inigram, Erin Bergeses woke up from thunder and rain at 3:30 in the morning. After only 20 minutes, the water rushed into his house right across the river, he said. He described the hour of torture, holding on to the tree and waiting for the water to retreat enough so that they could go to the hill to the house of a neighbor.
“My son and I drifted on a tree where we held on to him, and my girlfriend and my dog were swept away. He disappeared for several moments, but we found them, ”he said.
As for his 19-year-old son, Bergesses said: “Fortunately, height is more than 6 feet. This is the only thing that saves me that holds him. ”
The 44 -year -old Matthew Stone from Kerrville said that the police knocked on the doorbell at 5:30 in the morning, but he did not receive any warnings on his phone.
“We did not receive an emergency warning. There is nothing, ”said Stone. Then: “The walls of death are black heights.”
Stone said that the police used his rowing boat to help save a neighbor. He and the Savior thought they heard someone screaming: “Please!” From the water, but does not see anyone, he said.