At least 161 people missing in Kerr County in Texas

At least 161 people are still missing in a single county in Texas four days after sudden deadly and devastating floods struck the parts of the state last week, said governor Greg Abbott, while Hope fades so that the survivors are found alive.

The disappeared in Kerr counting for sure include five campers and a Camp Mystic councilor, a Christian summer camp of the girls located on the banks of the Guadalupe river.

At least 109 people died in the event of a disaster, including 94 in the Kerrville region, Abbott said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Texas is not alone. New Mexico has also seen an emergency of sudden floods, the National Weather Service (NWS) warning intense floods on Tuesday evening.

In Texas, frantic research and rescue efforts are continuing, with Abbott who promising emergency teams “will not stop as long as each missing person is counted”.

Abbott added that it is most likely more missing to miss the list in the coming days and urged people to point out anyone who thinks they are not counted.

General Thomas Suelzer of the Texas National Guard said that research efforts include Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters with rescue palans.

He said there were 13 Black Hawk helicopters helping in the research effort, including four who arrived from Arkansas. He added that the authorities also used Reaper drones.

Stakeholders from various agencies work together on rescue efforts, including Border Patrol, FBI and National Guard agents.

More than 250 responders from various agencies were assigned to the Kerrville region to help research and rescue.

One of these rescue volunteers, named Tim, told the BBC that he had never seen destruction on this scale before.

“I made the floods in eastern Texas and Southeast Texas and Hurricane, and it’s a nightmare,” he said.

Another rescue volunteer, named Justin, compared the effort to “try to find a single hay in a haystack”.

“There is a wide trace of destruction for miles, and there are not enough corpse dogs to browse all of this,” he told the BBC.

“It is difficult to access a lot with heavy machines. The guys try to choose it with tools and hands, and they do not even put a breach – not for lack of effort.”

Questions have been raised to find out if the authorities provided adequate warnings before the disaster and why people were not evacuated earlier.

Experts say that there were a number of factors that contributed to the tragedy in Texas, including extreme weather, the location of holiday homes and timing.

The governor, who had spent part of the day studying the flood zone, said the authorities had issued a storm warning and knew a possible sudden flood, but “did not know the scale of the storm”.

No one knew it would lead to a “30-foot tsunami wall,” he said.

The governor answered a question about who was going to “blame” for the huge death report, saying: “This is the word choice of losers.”

He has made a sporting analogy, saying that American football teams are making mistakes; The champion teams are those who do not “point their fingers”.

Most of the victims died in Kerr county, where the Guadalupe river was swollen by torrential showers before Daybreak on Friday, the fourth holiday.

Camp Mystic had confirmed earlier than at least 27 girls and the staff were one of the dead.

Those who have survived are now focused on the test of rebuilding.

Justin Brown has lived along the Guadalupe river for over 25 years.

A week ago, he lived in his mobile house in the Blue Oak RV Park with his two young girls and his dog. Now there is a huge puddle where his house was – his motorhome swept in the floods.

“We were one of the rare parks to have brought out almost everyone,” Brown told BBC by describing the efforts of its owners and emergency, who evacuated almost all the residents of the park.

Looking over the empty lot where his house was once – now just debris – he said he hoped to return as soon as he can.

President Donald Trump will go to areas ravaged by floods with First Lady Melania Trump on Friday.

In addition, in New Mexico, the NWS said on Tuesday an emergency of sudden floods and told residents of Ruidoso to be on high alert for floods.

Officials are already working to save people trapped in flood waters and the houses have been swept away.

A wave of flooding on the Rio Ruidoso reached 15 feet (4.5 m), said the NWS to Albuquerque in a post on X.

The waters fell approximately two hours later, according to CBS, the American partner of the BBC.

The authorities had to carry out rapid rescues and some people were not recorded on Tuesday evening.