Death toll from Texas floods passes 100, including 27 at girls' youth camp

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00:00This drone footage shows the Guadalupe River in Central Texas after floods swept across

00:05the region on the 4th of July weekend. More than a hundred people have been reported dead

00:10in the disaster. At a vigil for the victims in San Antonio, locals were concerned about

00:16the same thing happening again.

00:19I'm also pretty shocked on the gravity of the situation and how big it was. I wouldn't

00:26necessarily expect that our rivers would rise so quickly and I am concerned about

00:32the infrastructure and the need for good infrastructure to be there so that this

00:36doesn't happen and hopefully there's preventative efforts happening in

00:40similar areas to make sure nothing to this degree happens.

00:45At least 27 children and councillors died at Camp Mystic, a Christian girls summer camp on

00:51the banks of the Guadalupe. They were engulfed by the rising waters as they slept in their

00:55tents. Two camp councillors who survived the storm described a harrowing experience.

01:02It was something no one expected. The rain continued all day and that's when we started

01:08to see that the waterfront, where our river area was, was crumbling. It was full of dirt

01:13and mud.

01:16It was full of furniture from other camps.

01:19It was full of branches and that's when all the girls started to realise that something

01:23was wrong and that something was happening and of course they started asking questions.

01:30Ten girls and one councillor are still unaccounted for at the camp. Critics say that an early

01:35warning siren system, which was rejected by local officials in 2016, could have saved the

01:41lives of those who perished.

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