Former President Obama stated in an announcement on Sunday that he was praying for these affected by the flash flooding in Texas over the previous few days.
“The flash flooding in Central Texas is completely heartbreaking. Michelle and I are praying for everybody who has misplaced a cherished one or is ready for information — particularly the mother and father,” he stated. “And we’re grateful to the primary responders and rescue groups working across the clock to assist.”
Obama wasn’t the one former president to supply phrases of assist on Sunday.
Former President Bush also expressed his sorrow over the lack of life from the floods.
“On at the present time of prayer, Laura and I are holding up our fellow Texans who’re hurting,” Bush wrote in an announcement.
“We’re heartbroken by the lack of life and the agony so many are feeling,” he continued. “Those that have misplaced their treasured youngsters are going through a grief no mother and father ought to ever know.”
Former first woman Laura Bush was as soon as a counselor on the camp, the place former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters additionally attended.
No less than 70 individuals had been confirmed useless in central Texas as of Sunday afternoon, the place search and rescue operations continued to scour the realm hit the toughest by Friday’s floods.
Kerr County, the place Camp Mystic and different summer time camps are positioned, confirmed 59 deaths, together with 38 adults and 21 youngsters, the sheriff’s office said Sunday morning. Eleven individuals from different counties had been confirmed useless, The Associated Press reported.
The Kerr County Sheriff’s Workplace said that, as of Sunday morning, 11 campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic had been nonetheless lacking.
Rep. August Pfluger’s (R-Texas) daughters and Rep. Buddy Carter’s (R-Ga.) granddaughters had been on the camp in the course of the flooding, however they each confirmed their relations had been secure. Carter stated his granddaughter’s cousin, Janie, died from the floods.
Extra rain was additionally anticipated on Sunday afternoon. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) posted a screenshot of a climate notification on X and requested individuals within the space affected by the flash floods to hunt greater floor and “get off of roads close to waterways.”
Some areas in Central Texas on Sunday are anticipated to obtain 5 to eight inches of rain, with a number of components doubtlessly receiving as much as 12 inches of rain, according to The Weather Channel.