Desperate search for missing girls as Texas flood toll crosses 50 Hunt

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United States Rescuers were racing against time Sunday to find dozens of missing people, including children, swept away by flash floods that killed more than 50 in Texas, as forecasters warned of new deluges.

Local Texans joined forces with disaster officials to search through the night for the missing, including 27 girls from a riverside Christian summer camp.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Camp Mystic on the banks of the Guadalupe River, where some 750 girls had been staying when the floodwaters hit, had been "horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I've seen in any natural disaster."

"The height the rushing water reached to the top of the cabins was shocking," he said in a post on social media platform X after a visit to the site.

"We won't stop until we find every girl who was in those cabins." The Kerr County summer camp was in disarray, with blankets, teddy bears and other belongings caked in mud. Windows in the cabins were shattered, apparently by the force of the water.

The National Weather Service (NWS) warned Sunday that slow-moving thunderstorms threatened more flash floods over the saturated ground of central Texas.The flooding began Friday -- the start of the Fourth of July holiday weekend -- as months' worth of rain fell in a matter of hours, much of it coming overnight as people slept.

The Guadalupe, which flows through Kerr County, surged some 26 feet (eight meters) -- more than a two-story buildingin just 45 minutes. “We have recovered 43 deceased individuals in Kerr County. Among these who are deceased we have 28 adults and 15 children,” said Larry Leitha, the sheriff of the region.