Vecinos de Kerr, Texas culpan a autoridades por falta de aviso tras inundación mortal

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6/7/2025

Tras la inundación que dejó 13 muertos y 20 niños desaparecidos en Kerr, Texas, habitantes acusan a autoridades locales de rechazar la instalación de un sistema de alerta temprana.

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00:00Jackie Morales, habitante desde hace 25 años en la localidad de Hunt, condado de Keir,

00:06lamentó que no haya un sistema de alerta temprana.

00:09Aseguró que nadie dijo que iba a pasar esto, que no hubo ninguna clase de alarma que pudiera prevenir la tragedia.

00:16Esta joven manifestó que el comisionado de la ciudad, Tom Baldwin,

00:20dijo que dotar de un sistema de emergencia era extravagante y que tomar estos fondos para proyectos especiales no era necesario.

00:27La mujer, también en tono de molestia, dijo que solo han comenzado a fluir los nombres de los gringos, como dijo ella,

00:36entre las víctimas y desaparecidos, no así de los mexicanos, a pesar de que buena parte de las víctimas son latinos.

00:43Otros residentes y visitantes de otros estados que estuvieron presentes en las inundaciones

00:47también señalaron que la lluvia los tomó desprevenidos y las alertas llegaron hasta varias horas después.

00:57They came hours later, which was the most devastating part.

01:02You know, we got the warnings on our phones hours later, hours later.

01:08The destruction had already been done before the warnings came out.

01:13About 6.30 in the morning or 6 o'clock in the morning, we heard some thumps.

01:16I had a shed around the corner and the shed started banging against the house.

01:26And my wife jumped up and she looked out the back and she said, there's a river back there.

01:30And so we ran to the front and by the time we grabbed two dogs and a set of keys,

01:36the water had risen, covered four motorcycles and floated a jeep and then floated a big truck.

01:46By the time, like over the last five minutes, the water went from like right there to right here.

01:52And then another 10 minutes, the water was like this high.

01:55It was scary. It was really scary.

01:57The big question was, what do we do?

01:59And, you know, things were getting dicier by the moment.

02:02We couldn't tell if the water was going to continue to rise.

02:05So I said, we need to get out of the house.

02:07So I grabbed my wife and we literally jumped in the water and it swept us down to about 200 feet down that way.

02:16And there was a crepe myrtle tree that we grabbed hold of and we waited for rescue.

02:21I literally pulled up my waterproof phone and started calling people going,

02:24Hey, get Swiftwater Rescue to come get us because we are like in extremis.

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