Risk of further floods in Texas as death toll rises to 82

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday even as crews search urgently for the missing following a weekend deluge that killed at least 82 people&comma; including children at summer camps&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Officials said the death toll was sure to rise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Residents of Kerr County began clearing mud and salvaging what they could from their demolished properties as they recounted harrowing escapes from rapidly rising floodwaters late on Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;186728" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-186728" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;IMG&lowbar;9171&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-186728" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-186728" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">A helicopter flies over the Guadalupe River<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Reagan Brown said his parents&comma; in their 80s&comma; managed to escape uphill as water inundated their home in the town of Hunt&period; When the couple learned that their 92-year-old neighbour was trapped in her attic&comma; they went back and rescued her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Then they were able to reach their toolshed up higher ground&comma; and neighbours throughout the early morning began to show up at their toolshed&comma; and they all rode it out together&comma;” Mr Brown said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A few miles away&comma; rescuers manoeuvring through challenging terrain filled with snakes continued their search for the missing&comma; including 10 girls and a counsellor from Camp Mystic&comma; an all-girls summer camp that sustained massive damage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Governor Greg Abbott said 41 people were unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the Hill Country area&comma; home to several summer camps&comma; searchers have found the bodies of 68 people&comma; including 28 children&comma; Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;186726" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-186726" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;IMG&lowbar;9170&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-186726" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-186726" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Officials comb through the banks of the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Ten other deaths were reported in Travis&comma; Burnet&comma; Kendall&comma; Tom Green and Williamson counties&comma; according to local officials&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The governor warned that additional rounds of heavy rain lasting into Tuesday could produce more dangerous flooding&comma; especially in places already saturated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Families were allowed to look around the camp from Sunday morning&period; One girl walked out of a building carrying a large bell&period; A man whose daughter was rescued from a cabin on the highest point in the camp walked a riverbank&comma; looking in clumps of trees and under big rocks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One family left with a blue footlocker&period; A teenage girl had tears running down her face as they slowly drove away and she gazed through the open window at the wreckage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nearby crews operating heavy equipment pulled tree trunks and tangled branches from the river&period; With each passing hour&comma; the outlook of finding more survivors became even more bleak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Volunteers and some families of the missing came to the disaster zone and searched despite being asked not to do so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Authorities faced growing questions about whether enough warnings were issued in an area long vulnerable to flooding and whether enough preparations were made&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Donald Trump signed a major disaster declaration on Sunday for Kerr County and said he would likely visit on Friday&colon; 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