DALLAS — Flash floods swallowed parts of Piedras Negras, Mexico, April 4, prompting Texas Baptists to send blankets, clothes, food and drinking water.
According to reports, more than 50 people have been confirmed dead and another 100 are missing. Most of the city, which is across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, remains without electricity and water. The colonia Villa de Fuente was hit particularly hard.
Dexton Shores, director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas River Ministry, is delivering a truckload of blankets, clothes and drinking water to be disbursed in the city. Meanwhile, a Texas Baptist Men’s disaster-response unit is en route to the region, along with water purification equipment. Buckner Baptist Benevolences is sending a load of clothes, shoes and soup.
More than 600 homes were destroyed in the flood. The Rio Escondido, a typically 8-inch deep creek commonly used for washing cars, swelled to 25 feet deep and 12 feet wide.
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