Man tries to “collect together” with 5 family members missing in the midst of Texas flooding

Kerrville, Texas – at the textual heat of the sticky texas with the approaching night, waited like Zafea Ramirez outside the Church of Calvie Temple in the hope of obtaining a miracle – that his mother and wife, aunt, his uncle and his cousin had never swallowed him with the explosive Guadalp River in Texas.

Ramirez, 23, from Midland, was in the church in Kerville threatening his eyes. He said he was getting “a minute to a minute, and the second to the second.”

He said that one of his cousins, Divin Smith, who was in HTR Campgrounds outside Ingram when the Guadalobi River exploded from his banks, late on Friday and was recovering at Peterson Regional Center.

Ramirez said Smith, 23, was found about 20 miles outside the center center in a tree.

But she was one of the six of those in the camp outside Ingram in the CARE province.

Ramirez said that he is still waiting for his aunt’s word, Tasha Ramos; Another cousin, Kendall Ramos; His father’s husband, Cody Crossland; His mother, Michel Krosland; And his uncle Joel Ramos.

Ramirez said the camp was a destination place for years, as the family went to enjoy the river since he was a young boy.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the emerging thunderstorms in the country of Texas Hill produce Near the floods 100 years. The Guadalopy River represented 23.4 feet on the flood scheme, over the “main flood” indicators, early on Friday, according to Noaa.

The shocking height in flood water, which may be strengthened by the “flood wave” that rolled along Guadalobi, and could have raised their depth immediately, left abandoned vehicles, mobile homes and companies that were collected, and are usually occupied summer camps with weekend activities that were eliminated from humanity and surrounded by clay fun.

The destructive floods have so far killed at least 51 people across the state, with dozens more missing, including 27 children who were in mystic camp, a Christian summer camp for girls. CARE province was the most difficult blow, as officials there were at least 43 deaths, including 15 children, as search and rescue efforts continued.

The governor of the state, Greg Abbott, who visited Kerville on Saturday, announced a state of disasters for the 20th of Texas province affected by the floods and announced on Sunday to be a day of prayer for victims of the harsh weather. He also asked for relief in federal disasters.

The Ramirez family was asleep when the waters of the Guadalpe River began to rise in the early morning hours on Friday.

Ramirez said: “They slept in the truck. They did not believe that it was safe in a tent. There were two trucks: his mother, father and cousin in adolescence in one, and his aunt, his uncle and Samith in the other.

It was his aunt who woke up first. Ramirez said that family members rushed to reach the top of the trucks, and they climb through the surfaces of the sun.

“They lost my uncle first” of the heavy stream of water. “He tried to keep them all together and could not stick to it.”

His mother, the wife of the father and Samith managed to reach a higher land and planned for help.

He said: “We found their truck in Ingram, against a tree, crushed and turned, and not far from the camp.”

His mother’s portfolio was inside when the family found the truck on Saturday, after a day of research.

“I am the only boy, so I am trying to carry him together for the rest of the family,” Ramirez said.