Earlier than-and-after pictures display RVs swept away, properties destroyed via Texas floods via NewsFlicks

Newly launched aerial pictures display destruction at a number of places in Central Texas, days after flash floods killed greater than 120 other people and left about 170 other people lacking.

Lots of the sufferers had been in Kerr County, a flood-prone house the place the Guadalupe River rose 26 ft in lower than an hour. Footage equipped via aerial imagery corporate Nearmap display how the speeding floodwaters destroyed RV parks, properties and extra. 

Lorena Guillen, proprietor of Blue Oak RV Park, informed CBS Austin associate KEYE she awoke at 3:30 a.m. on July 4 to rescue groups and a wall of water speeding over the grounds. Guillen stated all 33 RVs and cellular properties parked at her assets had been swept away via floodwaters. 

Aerial pictures display the grounds of HTR TX Hill Nation Campground at the left and Blue Oak RV Park at the proper. Guillen stated a minimum of 5 other people had been lacking from her RV park, and dozens had been lacking from the campground subsequent door. 

“The cabins from the RV park subsequent door saved hitting, saved getting smashed in opposition to the timber. And there used to be screaming. You could not see a lot, however the screaming used to be insufferable,” Guillen stated.

Photographs additionally display properties within the Casa Bonita neighborhood in Hunt ripped off their foundations.

Sisters Blair Harber, 13, and Brooke Harber, 11, had been killed, at the side of their grandparents, when surging floodwaters ripped in the course of the neighborhood. Their folks had been staying in a distinct house at Casa Bonita and survived, in step with the circle of relatives’s GoFundMe.

Two miles upriver from Casa Bonita, neighborhood individuals rallied in combination at Hunt Retailer to serve unfastened foods for survivors and volunteers.

Aerial pictures display tents, umbrellas and tables arrange outdoor the shop, the place masses of unfastened foods got out. The photographs additionally display injury to the shop, which used to be established in 1946. 

“It seems like everyone’s in lovely just right spirits. We are no doubt getting extra inspired simply by being in combination,” Haley Lehrmann, proprietor of the Hunt Retailer, informed CBS associate KHOU.