{"id":4242,"date":"2025-07-09T22:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2025-07-09T22:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:08:04","slug":"breaking-texas-flood-crisis-just-took-a-darker-turnsee-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=4242","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Texas Flood Crisis Just Took a Darker Turn\u2026See more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full scale of Texas\u2019 catastrophic flash flooding continues to grow more tragic. On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the number of missing people has surged to 161 \u2014 quadrupling overnight from the previously reported 40 \u2014 while the death toll has reached 109, surpassing the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23201474937\/ternalnews.com\/ternalnews.com_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe will not stop until every missing person is accounted for,\u201d Abbott told reporters after surveying the damage by helicopter. He emphasized that the updated number includes those reported unaccounted for by friends, neighbors, and relatives, and warned the figure could still rise<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Camp Mystic and Kerr County at Epicenter<\/p>\n<p>The hardest-hit area remains Kerr County, where 87 deaths have been recorded, including 27 victims from Camp Mystic \u2014 a beloved all-girls Christian summer camp. Five girls are still missing from the site, which was overwhelmed by a wall of water after the Guadalupe River surged more than 30 feet above normal levels on July 4.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like nothing we\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d one first responder said. Entire communities have been left in ruins, with overturned trucks, snapped trees, and shattered homes littering the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leadership Under Scrutiny<\/p>\n<p>When asked during a press conference about accountability for the deadly delay in flood alerts, Governor Abbott pushed back: \u201cThe word choice of losers is to ask, \u2018Who\u2019s to blame?\u2019 We\u2019re focused on saving lives. We\u2019ve got this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full scale of Texas\u2019 catastrophic flash flooding continues to grow more tragic. On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the number of missing people has surged to 161 \u2014 quadrupling overnight from the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}