Former San Francisco Giants pitcher Tyler Walker flew to Texas over the weekend along with his spouse and mates to seek for his brother Mark, sister-in-law Sara and 14-year-old nephew Johnny, who’re all lacking after their trip residence was destroyed within the lethal Fourth of July floods in Texas.
“[Mark, Sara and Johnny are] missing and not identified yet, so we’re waiting on that,” Kathy Walker, Tyler and Mark’s mother, instructed the Marin Unbiased Journal from her residence in San Rafael, Calif on Tuesday.
Walker, who performed for the Giants from 2004-08, and his spouse picked up their niece, 16-year-old Ellie, who survived flooding at Waldemar Camp — which is close by the household’s trip residence, “River House,” alongside the Guadalupe River.
“All we can do is wait and pray for a miracle at this point. In a situation like that, waiting to find out if her dad and mom or brother, it’s just, it’s just dreadful,” Kathy stated, including that she spoke with Tyler on Sunday.
“They’re doing what they can to look on the river. He said there’s just so much devastation it’s impossible to comprehend. The debris piles everywhere, cars and trees and limbs. Just everything is piled up.”
Kathy added that a few of Ellie’s mates from the summer time camp are along with her whereas Walker, Sara and their household mates proceed trying to find her mother and father and brother.
“She does have support, but not enough — there’s never enough,” Kathy stated, including that Ellie is “distraught” and praying onerous. “In a situation like that — waiting to find out if her dad and mom or brother — it’s just, it’s just dreadful.”
Kathy instructed reporters she had been in common contact with Mark final week, however hasn’t heard from him after the flash flooding early on the Fourth of July.
Throughout a information convention on Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed that Mark, Sara and Johnny had been lacking and that their households are shut.
“Mark, his wife, and his 14-year-old son who was very close with so many kids, including my own son, in the Marin County area, they’re missing,” Newsom stated. “Thankfully, their 16-year-old daughter was found. It’s just another reminder of how devastating this tragedy is and obviously continues to unfold in just excruciating ways. Anyone with kids understands that.”
Ellie’s camp was separate from Camp Mystic, a ladies’ summer time camp in Kerr County the place not less than 27 campers and counselors died within the floods.
Kathy stated somebody despatched her a photograph of the stays of her son’s residence.
“It’s crashed and gone,” she stated.
A number of vigils have been held for the Walkers.
A minimum of 120 folks have been confirmed lifeless after the flash floods hit Central Texas, based on native regulation enforcement and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
As of Thursday, first responders are trying to find 170 folks nonetheless lacking, based on CBS.