It was followed by sevêral urgent alerts the federal agency issuedHundreds of emergency personnel were search

for stranded people, using 14 helicopters and
ground crews who were struggling to navigate
flooded roads, officials said. They warned that them
m
death toll was likely to rise.
“This is a tragic event. It’s going to be a mass
casualty event,” Freeman F. Martin, the director of

the Texas Department of Public Safety, told
reporters Friday afternoon.

Mr Patrick said Camp Mystic was contacting the
perenis of campers who remain unaccounted for.
Camp Mystic: The Christian summer camp for
girls on the Guadalupe River is nearly a century
old. Its facilities include a recreation hall that was
constructed in the 1920s from local cypress trees.

Past flooding: For those old enough to have lived
through it, the flooding on Friday surfaced
memories of a deadly swelling of