Sobrevivientes de las inundaciones más mortíferas de Texas en décadas relatan el caos y la devastación que provocó la rápida crecida de las aguas, que cobraron vidas y dejaron comunidades destrozadas.Según informaron las autoridades el domingo por la tarde, 80 personas han muerto y 41 permanecen desaparecidas, tres días después de que las intensas lluvias provocaran graves inundaciones repentinas en este estado del centro-sur de Estados Unidos.
01:29The devastation was such that I'm still in shock today.
01:35And with the rescues going on and the helicopters, you just know there's so many missing children
01:42and missing people.
01:43You just want them to be found for the sakes of the families.
01:47But you know it's not going to be a good ending.
01:50It's just not going to be.
01:51There's no way people could have survived the swiftness of the water.
01:57There's no way people could have survived the fire.
01:59There's no way people could have survived the fire.
02:03About 6.30 in the morning or 6 o'clock in the morning, we heard some thumps.
02:12I had a shed around the corner and the shed started banging against the house.
02:20And my wife jumped up and she looked out the back and she said, there's a river back there.
02:24And so we ran to the front and by the time we grabbed two dogs and a set of keys, the water had risen, covered four motorcycles and floated a jeep and then floated a big truck.
02:40And the big question was, what do we do?
02:43And you know, things were getting dicier by the moment.
02:45We couldn't tell if the water was going to continue to rise.
02:48So I said, we need to get out of the house.
02:50So I grabbed my wife and we literally jumped in the water and it swept us down to about 200 feet down that way.
02:59And there was a crepe myrtle tree that we grabbed hold of and we waited for rescue.
03:03I literally pulled up my waterproof phone and started calling people going, hey, get Swift Water Rescue to come get us because we are like in extremis.
03:14We are in bad shape.
03:15No warnings at all.
03:17They came hours later, which was the most devastating part.
03:21You know, we got the warnings on our phones hours later, hours later.
03:27The destruction had already been done before the warnings came out.
03:33I've seen it come up a little bit.
03:46I've seen it cover over the hike and bike trail there, but I've never seen it come up any further than that.
03:51And yeah, this is like a once in, I don't know, 200 year kind of flood.
03:58Yeah, so this is very unusual.
04:00This is just a weird confluence of weather conditions that occurred.
