After dozens of deaths, Texas seeks missing waiting for more rain

He recovered the girl’s belongings in the middle of the mud. Michael found a towel with her name, a bracelet and a picture of the family she had taken for the trip.

Searches on their own are limited due to lack of resources. Michael left Austin, the capital of Texas, 150 km from the camp site. He rolled up belongings and rubble, but made the places more complicated for rescue teams because he has no equipment. “We are looking for where it could be found alive,” he said, very thrilled.

Young man sent a message to his parents before disappearing. “The water is taking us,” said Joyce Bandon, 21, in the last message he sent to his family. She was in a house on the banks of the Guadalupe River. Relatives and friends mobilized to meet the young woman, who was with three friends in the country house of one of them, where the group spent the national holiday of July 4. It rained tightly all night, and apparently friends could not seek a refuge in time.

Pope Leo 14 expressed solidarity during the traditional weekly prayer in the Vatican. He especially cited the families of missing girls in a summer camp. “I would like to express my sincere condolences to all families who lost someone who loved, especially their daughters, who were in a summer camp,” said the religious leader, who is American