Death toll at 121
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The death toll has now climbed to at least 121, making it America's deadliest rainfall-driven flash flood since 1976.
Rescuers were scouring a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris on Sunday in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors following a historic flash flood.
Officials said Wednesday, July 9, that the death toll has risen to 95 in Kerr County following the devastating floods in central Texas, according to CNN. Of the 95, 59 are adults and 36 are children.
Officials in Texas are facing mounting questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm’s way before a flash flood swept down the Guadalupe River and killed more than 100 people, incl
Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas dimmed Tuesday, a day after the death toll surpassed 100, and crews kept up the search for people missing in the aftermath.
The devastating floods that struck central Texas on July 4 have claimed at least 119 lives, with around 170 people still missing. The disaster has been severe in Kerr County, where at least 27 children lost their lives at nearby Camp Mystic.