At least 150 people disappeared in Kerr County in Texas

At least 150 people are still missing in a Texas county five days after deadly and devastating lightning floods hit parts of the state, civil servants said, as hope fades for the survivors to be found.

The lack of Kerr County, the firmly affected district, includes five camps and an adviser from Mystic camp, a Christian summer camp for all girls located on the bank of the Guadalupe River.

At least 119 people were killed in the disaster, according to the latest county counties. Authorities have confirmed that 95 were in the Kerville area.

Texas is not alone. Neighboring in New Mexico, he also saw an emergency of flooding on Tuesday, causing the death of at least three people.

Up to 8.8 cm (3.5 inches) rain fell there, causing the river waters to delete the village of Rudiso, officials said. This flood has now retired.

In Texas, the frantic effort to search and rescue continues, with governor Greg Abut promising emergency crews, “will not stop until every missing person is reported.”

Abbot added that in the coming days it is very likely that they will be missing more recently and urged people to report to anyone they think they have not been reported.

General Thomas Suelzer of the National Guard of Texas said search efforts use Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters with rescue lifts.

He said the search efforts have 13 Black Hawk helicopters, including four who arrived from Arkansas. Authorities also use Reaper drones.

Respondents from different agencies work together for rescue efforts. These include border patrol agents, the FBI and the National Guard.

More than 250 responses from different agencies have been appointed only in the Kerville area to help search and rescue.

One of these rescue volunteers, named Tim, told the BBC that he had never seen destruction on this scale before.

“I made the floods in Eastern Texas and Southeast Texas, hurricanes. It’s a nightmare,” he said.

Another rescue volunteer named Justin compares efforts with “trying to find a hay in hay.”

“There is a broad trace of kilometers destroyed and there are not enough corpse dogs to go through all this,” he told the BBC.

“It is difficult to access many of it with heavy machines. Boys try to take it with tools and hands and do not even put a recess into it – not because of lack of effort.”

There are questions about whether the authorities have provided adequate warnings before the disaster and why people were not evacuated earlier.

Experts say there have been a number of factors that have contributed to the Texas tragedy, including extreme time, the location of the holiday homes and the weather.

The Abbot, who had spent part of the day, examining the flood area, said the authorities had issued a storm warning and knew about a possible flash flood, but “they did not know the magnitude of the storm.”

No one knew that it would lead to a “30-foot tsunami water wall,” he said.

The governor answered a question about who was “accused” for the huge number of death, saying, “This is the word choice of loser.”

He made a sports analogy, saying that American football teams make mistakes; The teams of the champions are the ones who do not “point fingers”.

Most of the victims were killed in Kerr, where the Guadalupe River was swollen by tricky pours before Daybreak on Friday, the fourth official holiday of July.

Camp Mystic confirmed earlier that at least 27 girls and employees were among the dead.

The survivors are now focused on trying to recover.

Justin Brown has lived along the Guadalupe River for more than 25 years.

A week ago, he lived in his mobile home in Blue Oak RV with his two young daughters and a dog. Now there is a huge puddle that his home once stood – his RV moved away in the floods.

“We were one of the few parks that had taken out almost everyone,” Brown told the BBC, as he described the efforts of his landlord and emergency workers who evacuate almost all people in the park.

Looking at the empty land where his home once stood – now just debris – he said he hoped to move back as soon as he could.

President Donald Trump will travel to the destroyed flood areas with first lady Melania Trump on Friday.

In neighboring New Mexico, employees of the National Meteorological Service (NWS) have announced an emergency emergency on Tuesday and told Rudoso residents to be alert for a flood.

Rio Ruidoso’s flooded wave continued to reach a height of 15 feet, NWS reported. The houses were swept down the river and a man and two children were killed.

The officials there work with boats to rescue people trapped. A number of locals have not been reported since Tuesday night.