The Texas Summer Camp evacuates 70 people before fatal floods

A Texas Summer Camp Near the Guadalobi River, they evacuated about 70 children with adults after camps officials noticed the ascending water and the opening of rain on July 4.

The Sheikh’s Sheikhs, which has an area of ​​500 acres, is located, a recreational destination that was hosting a summer camp, in addition to a youth conference with churches throughout the United States, at river tufts and was monitoring the situation for about 24 hours, and the Director of MO-Ranch Lisa Winters Lisa Winters Kens5 said.

It was around one o’clock on Friday when the facility director, Aroldo Parrera, was notified his boss, who was monitoring reports of storms approaching, according to Associated Press.

Although there was no warning by local authorities, CAMP officials acted at MO-Ranch quickly on their own, where they transported about 70 children and stayed over a clear night in a building near the river. With the presence of safe children, the camp leaders, including the president and CEO, Tim Hachton, avoid the catastrophe that struck at least another camp near Hunt, Texas.

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“They helped them overcome,” Winters told AP on Sunday. “They raised them, brought them out, and put them on a higher land.”

Other places were much worse. Flash floods chanted via Texas Hill County before dawn on Friday, demolishing the landscape near the river and left more than 80 dead and displays dozens. As of Sunday, officials said 10 girls from Sufi near camp He remained missing. Rescue and restoration teams combed the area and others who are still missing for several days after that.

“We have a great blessing and an advantage enough to make people to a higher land,” Winters told Kens5 on Saturday. “We were laiding our plans, changing our plans, and moving people to a higher level in advance last night.”

She said that Mo Ranksh was hosting several hundreds of the camp, several hundred people from the conference, as well as the ordinary guests there for the weekend, all of them were calculated. She explained that the camp was without strength.

“Mo-Ranch is The camp, which is based in Christians, Winters said that the entire part is that the paradoxes, and the great celebration of the youth that I attended last night – we only changed the plans because we knew that something was stress and anxiety for children and how their warriors and how to be strong. They put this in place, and gathered together. ”

“I couldn’t say that there was no concern. I wasn’t there when that happened. But everyone was ready. Everyone was strong. Everyone achieved it safely,” Winters said.

The decision to leave to the escalating novels on how camps and residents in the region say that they were left to make their own decisions in the absence of warnings or notifications from the boycott.

Local authorities faced a great scrutiny and sometimes they corrected questions about the amount of warning they had or managed to provide the audience, saying that the reviews will come later, according to AP. Currently, they say they are focusing on rescue operations. Officials said they do not expect such intense heavy rains, which is equivalent to rain in the area.

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Winters AP told that MO-Ranch had not received any direct information from the boycott officials about the floods that could take care of life.

“We had no next warning,” Winters said, adding that it would have been “destroyed” if the camp officials were not looking for weather reports and river river water.

“He saw this well, and they did something about it.”

Winters Kens told that there are hundreds of camps along the Guadalupe River, MO-Ranch sits on top of the slopes in Hunt.

By about seven o’clock in the morning on Friday, the camp staff began contacting children’s parents, and told them that their children were safe.

“They knew that these parents would wake up and only see all these missing media shots, or the river,” Winters told the Winters to AP. “They are like,” tell your parents that you are fine “… We have confirmed that every one guest, every one child, was calculated.”

Winters said that the camp, which is located on a land higher than some in the region, suffered some damage, but not the same importance.

“The buildings do not matter,” she said. “I cannot imagine the loss of children or people.”

She said that a strong kayak aluminum boats were wrapped around a tree “like a salt.”

“This only shows you Water strength. I don’t know how anyone can survive. She said, “God blessed us.”

The camp remained closed on Sunday, and MO-Ranch was working on ways to help other floods.

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“We are in a difficult place because others are really suffering,” Winters, who became emotional during an interview. “We are the camp sisters. We take care of each other.”