The news this Fourth ofJuly in Texas could not be more unbearable to read..
So many lives lost, unaccounted for.. so much misery from flooding with more rain set to hit the same areas..
JULY 4TH CATASTROPHE IN TEXAS
MASSIVE FLOODING
12 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR
KIDS FROM CAMPS MISSING
Widespread damage
Camp Mystic ground zero
Severe flooding has left at least 24 people dead in Kerr County, Texas, Sherrif Larry Leitha said at a news conference Friday night.
There was also an additional fatality in Kendall County, but it’s not immediately clear if it is related to flooding, he said..
In Comfort, TX, the water level rose from 3’ to 29’ in just 45 minutes…
Reporting from CNN: School buses and trucks filled with rescued people drove into a reunification center in Ingram, Texas, on Friday as families reunited with their children from the nearby girls’ and boys’ camps. Search efforts remain underway for the over 20 people who remain unaccounted for from Camp Mystic, with helicopters, rescue boats and other units searching the surrounding areas.
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As this unfolds, it is almost a sequel of the 1993 film THE FLOOD: WHO WILL SAVE OUR CHILDREN
In rural Comfort, Texas, the protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the buses even ride early to keep ahead, but the river rises too fast: the buses are caught, everybody must survive on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can’t cling on very long. Some kids break down in understandable panic, others prove true and unselfish courage, including Brad, the natural leader, every girl’s dream and the most boisterous of the pack, occasionally braving the rather totalitarian system. Worried parents fly in to the rescue center in a public school, where survivors and corpses are brought in, including that of Tonya Smith; her overprotective father heartlessly rebukes poor older brother Michael, an obedient kid who never gets a break and still is never good enough for his father’s praise, now even gets blamed for ‘failing’ to watch over his sisters, obviously brother Koons’s job, actually beyond human strength. A brave reporter can’t stand by idly as too many victims are still in desperate need for the military rescue crew to handle, but his own helicopter gets in trouble. The growing victims list and guilt feelings, even just for surviving when others didn’t, cause a flood of tears too…
The movie is based on a real event that occurred on July 17, 1987. On that day, 43 people were taken by a flash flood in the Guadalupe River near the city of Comfort. It was the worst flood of the Guadalupe River since 1932..
And now the 2025 event is occurring in real time..
May God have mercy on all of those suffering.. and may those lost rest in peace..
