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Death toll from Texas floods passes 100, including 27 at girls' youth camp
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This drone footage shows the Guadalupe River in Central Texas after floods swept across
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the region on the 4th of July weekend. More than a hundred people have been reported dead
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in the disaster. At a vigil for the victims in San Antonio, locals were concerned about
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the same thing happening again.
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I'm also pretty shocked on the gravity of the situation and how big it was. I wouldn't
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necessarily expect that our rivers would rise so quickly and I am concerned about
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the infrastructure and the need for good infrastructure to be there so that this
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doesn't happen and hopefully there's preventative efforts happening in
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similar areas to make sure nothing to this degree happens.
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At least 27 children and councillors died at Camp Mystic, a Christian girls summer camp on
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the banks of the Guadalupe. They were engulfed by the rising waters as they slept in their
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tents. Two camp councillors who survived the storm described a harrowing experience.
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It was something no one expected. The rain continued all day and that's when we started
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to see that the waterfront, where our river area was, was crumbling. It was full of dirt
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and mud.
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It was full of furniture from other camps.
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It was full of branches and that's when all the girls started to realise that something
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was wrong and that something was happening and of course they started asking questions.
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Ten girls and one councillor are still unaccounted for at the camp. Critics say that an early
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warning siren system, which was rejected by local officials in 2016, could have saved the
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lives of those who perished.
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