‘Like an ocean on the market.’ SoCal boy recollects lethal Texas floods – NBC Los Angeles

An 11-year-old from San Diego is talking out after surviving the catastrophic flood in Central Texas, which took the lives of dozens of individuals, together with a number of campers.

Kaelan Kubena says he’s grateful to be residence secure along with his household, however apprehensive in regards to the others nonetheless lacking.

Kubena was in Central Texas attending Camp La Junta, an all-boys summer season program that focuses on outside actions.

There have been about 400 campers who had been impacted by the extraordinary flash flooding.

The 11-year-old tells NBC4 that the heavy rain stored many of the boys in his cabin awake early Friday morning.

Camp counselors rushed into their cabin to get them to increased floor in a safer space when their campground began to flood, round 4 a.m. on July 4.

“We appeared outdoors and we simply noticed like an ocean on the market,” mentioned Kubena. “It is identical to fully destroying every part, so we went onto the again lane, which is like simply extra elevation after that and we sat there like safely for about two hours.”

Camp La Junta is situated on the banks of the Guadalupe River, which surged by almost 30 toes in lower than two hours, sweeping away buildings and timber.

“We noticed like an entire cabin simply floating down and that is once we knew like these issues had been getting truly actual on the market. Like we had been beginning to notice that this was an actual pure catastrophe disaster,” mentioned Kubena.

Camp Mystic is the sister camp to La Junta, the place lots of the women from the camp are nonetheless lacking.

Kubena says he has a buddy with a sister who was attending Camp Mystic and luckily saved, however one other buddy’s member of the family remains to be lacking.

Search and rescue missions continued into Sunday night time as a number of campers had been nonetheless reported lacking.