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Have friends visiting from Rhode Island. After dinner they got a text message from a colleague showing carnage around Providence from this storm. Looked like a microburst on their street. Trees down in a line, cars crushed, houses with holes in the roof etc. A microburst hit our neighborhood during Fran and you would have some properties untouched and then others where it looked like a giant walked on them. Our house (North Raleigh) had 30 trees down, seven alone on/ through the roof. Our next door neighbor had nothing but a few branches in the yard.
 
32 dead, including 14 kids, from flooding in Texas. A lot of girls that were at a summer camp are still missing, too.

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14 children in Texas are among the 37 dead from flash floods as the search continues for the missing

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Rescuers scoured flooded riverbanks littered with mangled trees Saturday and turned over rocks in the search for more than two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others missing after a wall of water blasted down a river in the Texas Hill Country. The storm killed...
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Carolina Fever said:
32 dead, including 14 kids, from flooding in Texas. A lot of girls that were at a summer camp are still missing, too.

www.wral.com

14 children in Texas are among the 37 dead from flash floods as the search continues for the missing

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Rescuers scoured flooded riverbanks littered with mangled trees Saturday and turned over rocks in the search for more than two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others missing after a wall of water blasted down a river in the Texas Hill Country. The storm killed...
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Just horrific. According to CNN 27 girls from the camp that was devastated (Camp Mystic) are still missing, and while there is a massive search-and-rescue effort going on I would imagine that the odds are not good that any of the girls are still alive. Some were as young as 7. What a nightmarish story. :(
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Just horrific. According to CNN 27 girls from the camp that was devastated (Camp Mystic) are still missing, and while there is a massive search-and-rescue effort going on I would imagine that the odds are not good that any of the girls are still alive. Some were as young as 7. What a nightmarish story. :(
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Just awful.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Just horrific. According to CNN 27 girls from the camp that was devastated (Camp Mystic) are still missing, and while there is a massive search-and-rescue effort going on I would imagine that the odds are not good that any of the girls are still alive. Some were as young as 7. What a nightmarish story. :(
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Shit! Poor kids.
 
Sadly, one of the victims at the camp was the 8-year-old daughter of former UNC footballer Patrick Marsh, who was a deepsnapper on the Bunting teams.
 
Zoo_View said:
Is it known the little girl is dead?
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Yep, unfortunately so. Patrick and his family live in Birmingham, where my wife and I just moved from, and his wife and my wife were in a women’s physicians group together. That’s how we found out this afternoon.
 
CFordUNC said:
Yep, unfortunately so. Patrick and his family live in Birmingham, where my wife and I just moved from, and his wife and my wife were in a women’s physicians group together. That’s how we found out this afternoon.
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Damn, that is so heartbreaking. I cannot fathom the pain of losing a child. Truly cannot even remotely imagine it.
 
CFordUNC said:
Yep, unfortunately so. Patrick and his family live in Birmingham, where my wife and I just moved from, and his wife and my wife were in a women’s physicians group together. That’s how we found out this afternoon.
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Just fuck.
 
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Yikes! I was yelling, “Run! Run!” as I watched that.

Flooding like that is the craziest thing. It doesn’t seem possible. We have a small creek by our house and it’s amazing the amount flooding that can come from that during a heavy rain. A few weeks ago, it flooded a street near me that sits about 20-30 yards away from the creek:
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Also took out the railings along the greenway trail right by our house (the water along that stretch rises very high over the trail during periods of heavy rain):
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Considering how small that creek is, it’s scary to think of how much damage a big river can do.
 
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