Death toll reaches 134, search continues for missing
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Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county’s top official, said during a county commissioners court meeting earlier Monday that local officials don’t know the exact number of how many visitors who traveled to the Guadalupe for the holiday weekend had been caught in the flood.
At least 132 people have died. State and local leaders say getting an exact figure of the missing is difficult because so many people were visiting the Guadalupe River on the holiday weekend.
Harley Moeller and her parents, Megan and Jake Moeller, had visited a campsite by the Guadalupe River for the Fourth of July.
As tears streamed down their faces, community members looked at the photos attached to a growing memorial wall.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNKerrville community unites in mourning and prayer for those lost and missing in Texas floodsAmid staggering loss, hundreds gathered in mourning and prayer at a Wednesday night vigil for the victims of the July Fourth floods.
Kerrville residents who turned out in force Friday to welcome President Donald Trump said his visit brought hope and comfort — and marked an important step in the town’s long road to healing and rebuilding.
AMY VANLANDINGHAM, a resident of Kerrville, Texas, on why she is participating in the search for those still missing from the July 4 floods.
Family members have identified more than a dozen people who are presumed missing after severe flooding in the Texas Hill Country on Fourth of July weekend.