A girl’s summer camp cuts less than a deadly disaster

Camp Mystic, a Christian girls camp was located on the banks of the Guadalup River in Texas, a few days ago the place of laughter, prayer and adventure.

The girls at the camp were eight-year-old Renee Smastrela, smiling ear to ears in a picture taken on one of those days-“time of life” with his friends.

But the next day, the camp he loved and so many young girls, the most deadly floods in recent Texas history turned into a site of one of the disasters.

Renee was one of the killed people.

“She must have been living her best life at the Camp Mystic forever,” she wrote on Facebook by her uncle Sean Salta.

Pictures show terrible after: Cot bed with mud and topl, a summer camp detritus is tragically shortened.

The destroyed individual goods are scattered in soaked interiors, where the children once gathered for Bible studies and camp fire songs.

At least 59 people – among them the camp has been confirmed by the long -term director, Richard “Dick” Eastland, and many young camper – dead.

Eleven and a camp consultant is missing from its campers. Many of the unaccounted girls were allegedly sleeping in a low -lying cabin from Riverbank.

On Sunday, the rain was decreasing as the BBC camp reached the Mystic.

The entrance was closed by the police and whatever the gatehouse could have been scattered on the ground.

Excess rainfall is forecast, which will make the rescue effort even more difficult.

Three days after the deluse, the Hope is disappearing and it is rapidly becoming more recovery exercise than a rescue mission.

Camp Mistic is operated by the same family for generations, which gives girls a chance to develop “spiritual” in the “spiritual” Christian atmosphere, according to their website.

The entire family of Texas and America send their daughters to swim, canoe, horses riding and lifelong friendship every summer.

But the beauty of the Gwadalup River, which draws into many areas, also proved fatal.

Flood waters arrived with small warnings, ripping through the picturesque riverfront area, which is home to about 20 young camps.

Although Camp Mystic suffered the biggest loss, officials say the scale of disaster is far -reaching.

Nearby, the All-Girls Camp Heart O ‘hills also faced floods.

Its co-owner and director, Jane Ragsdel, was among the dead. Fortunately, the camp was out of session at that time.

A statement at the camp said, “Most of them who were in the camp at that time have been calculated and they are on high ground … We are mourning the loss of a woman who influenced countless lives and had a strong and powerful definition.”

There was an unknown number of other campers in the area for the holiday weekend.

Questions are increasing on why so many camps were located so close to the river, and why were not more to vacate the children in time.

The Congress Chip Roy, who represents the region, accepted the devastation by taking precautions against premature defects.

“The response is going to be,” we have shifted all these camps – why will you set up camps here with water? ” Roy said.

“Well, you have camps with water because it is from water. You have camps near the river because it is a beautiful and amazing place.”

The missing families meanwhile face a yearning waiting for the news. Search and rescue teams – some navigating by boat, combing through other debris – are working in the clock time.

Ker County Sheriff Larry Litha said on Sunday that the search for the remaining people continued.

“We are not going to stop until we can get them reunioned families,” said City Manager Dalton Rice.

Governor Greg Abbott has declared an emergency situation, and officials warned that the final toll may increase in the coming days.