Two teenage camp counselors have recalled the harrowing second they wrote the names of the younger women they have been caring for on their our bodies in case they have been swept away within the raging Texas floodwaters.
Silvana Garza and Maria Paula mentioned they desperately placed on a “happy face” to maintain the kids calm as they ready to evacuate a department of Camp Mystic neighboring the one the place no less than 5 women have been killed and 11 are nonetheless lacking.
“Us as counselors, we started to write our names on our skin, anywhere that was visible,” Paula Advised Mexican information outlet NMas in a Spanish-language interview on Sunday.
“We did the same for the girls, wrote their names anywhere that was easy to see,” she added.
Survivors of the neighboring non-public all-girls summer time camp — the place no less than 5 women are confirmed lifeless and one other 11 stay lacking — flocked to to the situation the place Garza and Paula labored because the Guadalupe River swelled.
As information poured in of the horror close by, the pair mentioned they have been informed to “put on a happy face” to not scare the youthful women.
“At the time, we started to prepare our girls because we thought we were also going to be evacuated,” Garza informed the outlet.
“We told them to pack a bag, to pack their favorite stuffed animal. We didn’t know if we were going to be evacuated or not. We were just waiting.”
No less than 82 folks have been killed within the historic floods — with dozens extra folks lacking and the variety of these killed solely anticipated to rise.