First responders scan the banks of the Guadalupe River for people swept away by flooding in Ingram, Texas, Friday, July 4, 2025.
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No less than 24 persons are useless following excessive flooding that slammed Texas Hill Nation early Friday morning, in keeping with state officers.
No less than 20 women from a Christian summer season camp subsequent to the Guadalupe River stay lacking.
Officers mentioned a few of these campers could also be stranded and unable to name for assist.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott mentioned throughout a information convention Friday night time that the state is committing all the required sources to proceed with a search and rescue mission.
The governor issued a catastrophe declaration for a number of counties within the state’s space often known as the Hill Nation, about 70 miles from San Antonio.
Gov. Abbott mentioned search and rescue missions will proceed “within the darkness of the night time…searching for for anyone who is just not accounted for.”
He added: “It is a 24/7 effort.”
Broken automobiles and particles are seen roped off close to the banks of the Guadalupe River after flooding in Ingram, Texas, Friday, July 4, 2025.
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At an earlier briefing, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick mentioned greater than 500 responders and 14 helicopters have been deployed to search out anybody who’s trapped within the inundated space.
“We’ve got deployed plenty of personnel to a number of areas all through the Texas Hill Nation to help with search and rescue efforts,” Patrick mentioned, noting that the area is in style for summer season camps, together with one for a whole lot of women.
He mentioned state efforts’ emphasis Friday is to find unaccounted youngsters.
“Inside 45 minutes, the Guadalupe River rose 26 toes and it was a damaging flood — taking property and sadly lives,” Patrick mentioned. He added that the area bought 12 inches or extra of rain per hour.
Patrick mentioned that communities within the affected areas are with out electrical energy or web protection.
The state of affairs should still worsen. Sheriff Larry Leitha mentioned authorities consider the variety of fatalities might develop.
“That is in all probability going to be a few days’ course of,” Leitha mentioned throughout a press convention.
First responders deploy boats alongside the Guadalupe River after lethal flooding on Friday, July 4, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas.
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On Friday, the Nationwide Climate Service issued a hazard climate warning. In a press release, the NWS warned, “Flooding attributable to extreme rainfall continues to be attainable.” The company mentioned a further 1 to three inches of rain might fall throughout the area, however that “remoted spots within the Hill Nation might see as much as 5 inches.”
The NWS defined the acute rainfall is being attributable to a moist tropical airmass mixed with a sluggish shifting storm system in counties throughout south central Texas.
Kerr County officers mentioned the Guadalupe River, which runs via the area, is presently cresting at 39 toes or extra — up from about 3 toes earlier than the rainfall.
Choose Rob Kelly signed a declaration of catastrophe, following the devastation to property and lack of life left behind by the extreme climate storm.
“Suffice it in the present day this has been a really devastating and lethal flood,” Kelly mentioned throughout a Friday morning press convention.
Kelly’s workplace mentioned damages shall be monumental to each public infrastructure and personal properties, with estimates inconceivable to find out till floodwaters recede.
