High School Soccer Coach, Wife Dead from Texas Flash Flood; Children Missing
A football coach in high school and his wife would have been among the people who died in the sudden devastating flood in Texas during the independence weekend.
Reece Zunker, who was a football coach for boys for Tivy High School, and his wife, Paula, were confirmed as dead, according to an article on Facebook by Tivy Boys Soccer. Zunker has been described as a “mentor, teacher and a model” for Kerrville children.
“The heart broken by the loss of coach Reece Zunker and his wife Paula,” wrote the Tivy Boys football team. “Our Tivy Soccer and Kisd community has a broken heart with the loss of our chief and inspiration. Coach Reece Zunker was not only a football coach, he was a mentor, professor and model for our children in Kerrville. ”
Zunker was also described as having “rebuilt the football program” and having “left a legacy”.
“His passion for his players, students, colleagues, community and family will never be forgotten,” added Tivy Boys football.
The two children of Zunker would still have disappeared on Sunday morning, according to the Kerrville Daily Times.
Bob Price of Breitbart News and Randy Clark reported that in the aftermath of torrential precipitation leading the Guadalupe river to increase by about 26 feet in 45 minutes, the number of deaths of the sudden flood increased to almost 70.
Eleven girls and a mystic camp advisor, a Christian summer camp for girls, would still have disappeared:
Sunday morning, during an update of the press, the sheriff of the county of Kerr, Larry Leitha, told journalists that at least 59 people were confirmed to have died in the devastating flood which struck Texas Hill Country during the weekend of the independence day. Leitha said the dead include 38 adults and 21 children, Texas Tribune reported. The article reports that 59 deaths were located in the county of Kerr and ten others in the surrounding counties of the flood region.
Richard “Dick” Eastland, who was director of the Mystic camp, was confirmed as among those who died following the sudden flood. Eastland would have died trying to save the campers, according to the Kerrville Daily Times.
On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump revealed that he had “signed a major statement in the event of a disaster for the county of Kerr, Texas” which would guarantee that the first stakeholders obtained the “resources they need”.
“I just signed a major declaration in the event of a disaster for the county of Kerr, Texas, to make sure that our brave first stakeholders immediately have the resources they need,” Trump wrote in an article on Truth Social. “These families undergo an unimaginable tragedy, with many lost lives, and many still disappeared. The Trump administration continues to work in close collaboration with state and premises leaders. ”
