BBC News
The toll of death from flash flood colliding with Central Texas on Friday has now climbed over 100 people and an unknown number of others is missing.
The search and rescue teams are going through the mud-pildlords as the area is threatened with more rain and thunderstorms, but the Hope was disappearing four days after the devastation to find any more survivors.
Camp Mystic, a Christian All-Girls Summer Camp, confirmed that at least 27 girls and employees were among the dead. Ten girls and a camp consultant are still missing.
The White House, meanwhile, rejected the suggestions that budget cuts in the National Meteorological Service (NWS) could disrupt disaster response.
Of the victims, at least 84 – 56 adults and 28 children died in Ker County, where the Gwadalup river was swollen due to a torrential decline before the day of the day of July fourth public holiday.
The office of the County Sheriff said that some 22 adults and 10 children have been identified so far.
Camp Mistic said in a statement on Monday, “Our hearts are broken with our families who are tolerating this unimaginable tragedy.”
70-year-old Richard Eastland, co-owner and director of Camp Mistic, were trying to save the children, Austin American-Statesman.
Local pastor Dale Way, who knew the Eastland family, told the BBC: “The whole community will miss him [Mr Eastland]He died a hero. ,
In its latest forecast, NWS has predicted more slow -moving thunderstorms, possibly bringing more flash floods in the region.
Critics of the Trump administration have demanded the disaster to cut thousands of jobs in NWS’s original agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
There were five employees on duty at the NWS office responsible for the forecast in the region, as thunderstorms in Texas on Thursday evening, thunderstorms, general numbers for overnight shift when expected of severe weather.
White House press secretary Karolin Levitt rejected efforts to convict the President.
“It was a work of God,” he told a daily briefing on Monday.
“It is not the mistake of the administration that when the flood did this, but was given a quick and constant warning and, again, the National Meteorological Service did its work.”
He said the NWS office at Austin-San Antonio briefed for local authorities on the eve of floods and sent a flood watch out that afternoon, that night and before issuing several flood warnings in the hours of the night and earlier hours of July 4.
Trump, who is expected to visit Texas later this weekend, pushed back when asked on Sunday if the deduction of the federal government has obstructed the disaster response, initially referring to its Democratic predecessor, he said “The Biden Set-Ep”.
“But I will not blame Biden for this, either,” he said. “I would just say that this is 100 years of destruction.”
Texas Senator Ted Cruise, a Republican, told a news conference on Monday that there was no longer the time of “biased finger-bindu”.
A local pracharak, Nicole Wilson, Ker County has a petition to install flood sirens – some in other counties.
Such a system has been debated in Ker County for almost a decade, but funds have never been allocated for this.
Texas Lt Gove Dan Patrick admitted on Monday that such sirens might have saved life, and said they should be in place until the next summer.
Meanwhile, condolences continued from all over the world.
King Charles III has written to President Trump to express his “intense sadness” about the flood of destruction.
The British Embassy in Washington said that the king “offered his deep sympathy”, which loses loved ones.
