Two young camp counselors from Mexico helped the 20 girls in their charge survive last week’s devastating flash floods in Kerr County, Texas, by keeping their heads amid the chaos and keeping the girls entertained.
Heavy rains that hit Hill Country in central Texas starting July 3 caused severe flooding that has claimed the lives of more than 100 people.
María Paula Zárate and Silvana Garza Valdez, both 19, were counselors at a Christian camp for girls in Kerr County on July 4. Zárate and Garza were in charge of 20 girls when torrential rain began around 1 a.m., keeping them awake.
“At 3 a.m., the power went out in all the cabins, and that’s when the storm started really hard. The windows were shaking from the thunder and lightning,” Garza said in Spanish in an interview with Televisa’s Mexican news program NMás on July 7….