US President Donald Trump reassured Curville, Texas, and 120 people were killed last week, convinced of the residents who could help the government reconstructed.
The president and first lady Melania Trump met on the ground with local officials on Friday.
Trump said, “I’ve never seen it.”
More than 12,300 volunteers gathered and still lost 161 people throughout the state. Officials said volunteers work for 10 hours a day.
While the storm damaged houses across Central Texas and murdered the residents, Ker County touched the flood.
Trump said to the officials who gathered for the afternoon roundtable at the Kerrville Youth Center that he said, “I am in the village to express love and support and express the pain of our whole country.”
In general, the first lady who maintains low profiles also traveled to devastated. She hugged and prayed with the victims’ family during her visit.
“My deepest compassion for all parents who have lost a beautiful young soul,” she said. “We are sad with you. Our country is sad with you.”
She also promised to visit again.
Among the people who died in the storm were 27 young girls who attended the camp mysterious camp.
Texas’s search crew is sending in sieve through the debris to get the scores of missing people. The authorities said they would not be refrigerated until everyone explained.
Rajeev Fernando, the chief medical officer of the relief group Heal Corps, told the BBC, “This is a large -scale operation that is expanded every day.
“All of these fragments are pulled down with a few miles and miles below the river. So every day we are updated and expanded every day.”
The fatal tragedy raised questions about whether appropriate warnings were provided and why the camp was not evacuated before the flood.
Experts said that due to the number of factors, it led to the fatal effect of flash floods, including pre -departure timing, location of some houses, cell service patchwork and overall speed and severity.
Trump dismissed what he could do more to warn the residents on Friday. “Only evil people will ask such a question,” he said.
He praised the “heroism” of search and rescue efforts and said that it was “easy” to sit down and talk about other things.
The level of Guadalupe river, which has risen to flood families, roads and cars, has been surprisingly captivating many people.
The disaster developed before dawn a week ago. The river rose 26 feet (8m) over 45 minutes. Children, staff at summer camps, and people along the river fell asleep as the weather disappeared.
Joe Rigelsky, the founder of Christian Aid Organization Upstream International, leads a search device that combs specially trained corpse dogs and debris along the Guadelupe River.
Mr. Lee Gelski said in a mission that the BBC joined with a dog rocket, “I couldn’t have enough dogs now.
As his team followed the ROCKET along the river, SAMI, the founder of his wife and upstream international co -founder, picked up the lost things scattered between the debris.
She accidentally discovered a pillow that unleashed the child’s necklace from a tree, picked up a snail painted and read ‘joy’.
She posts a photo and explanation of the item on the Facebook group found in Guadalupe River. Here people can help to claim lost items or identify missing items.
“In the plan of everything here, it is a very small thing.”
“But someone’s child played with this.” She added that she had lifted the baby cup.
