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"There is a plan in place right now to accomplish draining the lake. We can't go any further than that, then to tell you that is being looked at right now," said Commissioner Tom Jones.
Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county’s top official, said during a county commissioners court meeting earlier Monday that local officials don’t know the exact number of how many visitors who traveled to the Guadalupe for the holiday weekend had been caught in the flood.
After a pause for rain, rescue crews hope to resume searching Monday for 160 people believed to be missing after flooding in Central Texas on July 4.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNOfficials say at least 100 people still missing after July Fourth floods; recovery efforts could take monthsAt least 132 people have died. State and local leaders say getting an exact figure of the missing is difficult because so many people were visiting the Guadalupe River on the holiday weekend.
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Search and rescue efforts resume for an eleventh day as crews continue to look for the 161 missing from the Guadalupe River that surged on the Fourth of July, after a brief pause Sunday due to an emergency weather alert from Kerr County officials.