“My daughter was here,“ he said Saturday, examining a stone-walled cabin with shattered windows, eventually finding a towel with her name, a bracelet and a family photo.
She is among 27 girls who have yet to be found after powerful waves of water rushed through the riverside camp in the pre-dawn hours after torrential rainfall.
Scattered on the floor are bottles of maple syrup and Cholula hot sauce, staples of Texan tables.
Authorities said at least 18 adults and 14 children were killed when heavy rains engorged the Guadalupe River until it overflowed its banks, dotted by multiple campgrounds.
A hundred-year flood
Along the Guadalupe River, which rose over 26 feet (eight meters) in 45 minutes, devastation stretches as far as the eye can see.
One girl was spotted clinging to a tree, Texas Governor Greg Abbott told reporters Saturday.
The river’s breach also damaged neighboring Kent County, flooding homes, knocking down fences and subsuming a fuel station.
“There is a saying here that there’s a flood every hundred years,“ said Gerardo Martinez, 61, who operates the Vecinos restaurant near a viewpoint.
Martinez said he watched as waters topped trees and “cars, whole houses were going down the river.”
“We see this stuff on TV. You don’t imagine it happening so close, especially in your hometown,“ Amorr said.
At Camp Mystic, Michael continued to comb through the mud-soaked surroundings.
“I hope for a miracle. Absolutely,“ he said.
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