Rescue crews in central Texas continued a desperate search on Monday for survivors of a catastrophic flash flood that has killed at least 96 people, including many children, with dozens still missing.

Torrential rains on Friday turned the Guadalupe River into a deadly torrent, sweeping through the Hill Country town of Kerrville and devastating Camp Mystic, a historic Christian girls' camp.

By Monday afternoon, authorities confirmed that 84 bodies had been recovered in Kerr County alone 56 adults and 28 children most of them from Kerrville, the county seat.

The death toll includes 27 campers and staff from Camp Mystic, which has been operating for nearly a century.

Ten others, including young girls and a camp counselor, remained unaccounted for. Search teams, battling muddy terrain and storm debris, also faced renewed threats of rain, with the National Weather Service warning of up to 10 more inches in some areas.

“This will be a rough week,” Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. said during a Monday briefing.

In a somber statement, Camp Mystic said, “Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy.” Among the victims was the camp’s co-owner and director, Richard “Dick” Eastland, 70, who died while trying to rescue the girls. “If he wasn’t going to go of natural causes, this was the way saving the girls he loved,” his grandson George Eastland wrote online.

The full scope of the disaster is still unfolding. Across five neighboring counties, another 12 flood-related deaths were confirmed, and 41 people remain missing, officials said.

The New York Times reported that at least 104 lives had been lost in total across the flood zone.

Rescue efforts were complicated on Monday after a drone collided with a search helicopter in restricted airspace over Kerr County, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing.

No injuries were reported, but the helicopter was grounded.

Meteorologists warn the situation could worsen. “The ground is already saturated, and debris is clogging channels. Any additional rain could trigger renewed flash flooding,” said Allison Santorelli of the NWS Weather Prediction Center.

The flood struck in the early hours of Friday, after a downpour dumped twice as much rain as forecast over the Guadalupe’s tributaries, overwhelming the river channel through Kerrville.

Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said the situation developed too rapidly for an evacuation to be safely executed. “Evacuation is a delicate balance. If you act too late, you risk putting people into dangerous situations on flooded roads,” he explained. “But we also don’t want to cry wolf.”

Not all experts agreed. AccuWeather’s chief meteorologist Jonathan Porter said authorities had enough warning to move people to safer ground before the flood hit.

As the disaster response continued, questions began to emerge over whether the tragedy could have been prevented. U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer called for an investigation into whether Trump-era budget cuts to federal agencies may have affected the accuracy or timeliness of weather warnings.

Senator Ted Cruz, while calling for future review, urged restraint in placing blame now. “There will be time to assess what went wrong, but this is not a moment for partisan finger-pointing,” he said.

With nearly half of central Texas still on flood watch, and thousands of families mourning or waiting for word on their missing loved ones, the week ahead promises only heartbreak and hard questions.