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Jonestown, Texas – A Texas from a Texas reported that he was like a witness to the worst flood to hit his territory as he started living there and vowed to keep his business running.
David Abaud, the owner of a paintball facility and a resident of Jonestown, Texas, told Fox News Digital, “We have been 20 years here and no one has seen anything like that, it is not.”
Abbaud shared a details of how fast the storm has destroyed Central Texas and how fast the destruction of the storm has worked.
“I was not in the morning time, when it came down like a curseed or water wall. FM is a monitoring station on 1431, monitoring cubic feet per second. And when it disappeared it was in 50,000 cubic feet seconds. Abboud said.
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Flood loss is seen in Johnstoun, Texas. (Brian Poston/Fox News Digital)
“We have less areas and trees, we have lost some of our fields, but we will clean it,” they continued.
Abaud said that some people of the area also helped to save people from a house in the area.
A creek near Abbaud’s business now covers where the road used to be a few days ago, which Abbaud did not tell him a new issue for him.
“We have done it earlier. We are really still there with low water crossings. This is the bank side, so this (flood) widen it,” Abouud explained.
“This man kept this wall here. So it focuses water on this side. So it has always been a problem,” he said.
Abbaud said that he was surprised that the wall was still standing.
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“I wonder the wall still. It has been coming down into pieces for years, and we are cleaning it out of the creek when it dries,” Abaud said.
During a press conference, Texas officials shared that they had received an unconfirmed report. Another wall of water “formation.
Head of Emergency Management W. Texas Division of Nim Kid said, “Another thing in this minute during this press conference is that there is an additional wall report.
Kid said that they were “emptying parts of the river because we are worried about another wall of water in those areas.”
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“It’s live updates that we are now receiving from the ground, this point is unconfirmed in the additional water report. And as the Governor mentioned, there is still raining there,” Kid said.
“We have found DPS aircraft that are currently trying to find this wall of water, and in the reported areas, again, unconfirmed, unconfirmed, which are on our communication systems. We are asking them to get out of the water and to get out of the way so that we do not air to rescue extra.”
On Sunday, Ker County Sheriff Larry Litha also warned that the Guadalup River and Johnson Creek could grow one and two feet one to two feet as rain continues in the area.
Sheriff’s office shared in a Facebook update, “This afternoon the upper Guadalupa basin received additional rainfall, leading to an increase in Johnson Creek.” “This water can grow 1-2 feet below when it enters the Gwadalup River in Ingram. Please keep in mind if you are near the Guadalup River or Johnson Creek.”
During a Sunday news conference, Litha said that he had recorded 68 deaths in Ker County.
“We have 40 adults and 28 children,” Litha said. “18 adults are pending and ten children are also pending identity.”
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“Currently ten camps are unaware of mystic campers, and a counselor. We continue to provide our condolences to the affected people, and we will tirelessly try until we will meet them again with their families,” they continued.
President Donald Trump said he was planning to go to Texas, “Maybe on Friday.”
“We want to leave a little time. I must have done it today, but we will just be in their way. Perhaps on Friday,” said Trump.
Fox News’ Loren Taylor contributed to this report.
