(The Center Square) – At a legislative hearing on the July 4 flood, lawmakers heard from residents who said they are finding hip bones, fingers, limbs and body parts of people who died from the July 4 flash flood and authorities are largely absent in their communities.
Sandy Creek residents gave examples of Travis County failures at all levels previously reported by The Center Square. Ingram Lake residents said the lake has become a graveyard full of body parts that needs to be cleaned out.
The majority of Sandy Creek residents are elderly and on fixed incomes, resident Auburne Gallagher said. She said volunteers are the only ones cleaning debris and protecting residents from looting. She also said the number of people reported missing by Travis County is wrong because officials aren’t counting those missing from 20 homeless encampments and a great number of illegal foreign nationals who were living there…