Christmas Eve ‘tragedy’ leaves a highschool trainer useless and his daughter lacking

An Oklahoma basketball trainer and father of 4 was once discovered useless, and his 8-year-old daughter stays lacking after the circle of relatives’s automotive was once swept away by way of raging floodwaters in Texas on Christmas Eve. 

Will Robinson, a highschool trainer from Durant, Oklahoma, and his circle of relatives have been reportedly using of their SUV on Tuesday morning when the car left the roadway, were given stuck in a drainage ditch in Sherman, Texas, and was once over excited by way of robust currents, CBS Information reported. 

All six members of the family have been trapped within, consistent with the Sherman Police Division. Robinson didn’t live on, whilst 4 different members of the family have been rescued. The circle of relatives’s 8-year-old daughter has now not been discovered. 

“We’re nonetheless unsuccessful in our efforts to find the 8-year-old woman,” Lieutenant Samuel Boyle of the Sherman Police Division informed Fox Information Virtual. “Now we have recognized a 15-mile stretch of creek downstream from the place the car stopped, and we now have focused that with the multi-jurisdictional job power.” Sherman police have now not but showed the id of Robinson or his circle of relatives, Boyle informed Fox Information Virtual. 

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The seek for the younger woman, which government stated had already coated seven miles of creek as of Wednesday, continues into its 3rd day, as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott licensed state seek and rescue groups to lend a hand find the kid. 

“We’re transferring our focal point into the county, focused on some imaginable places the place we now have now not seemed to as but,” the Sherman Police Division stated in a observation on Wednesday afternoon, including, “Our seek will proceed till darkish as of late, then we will be able to resume looking out once more ahead of sunlight.”

The reason for Tuesday’s twist of fate was once “a mixture of a heavy downpour and collecting of groundwater,” Boyle informed Fox Information Virtual. “One way or the other that led to the car to depart the roadway and input a drainage ditch… and the car were given stuck within the flooding within the drainage ditch.”

“It’s a tragedy, it truly is,” the lieutenant up to now informed KXII Information 12. 

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Highschool basketball trainer Will Robinson, who was once discovered useless after floodwaters swept away his circle of relatives’s SUV on Christmas Eve. (Fb)

“That is simply devastating, and going down on Christmas Eve makes it insufferable,” Robinson’s cousin wrote in a Fb put up on Wednesday. “Will was once some of the just right ones—a faithful husband and father, a liked basketball trainer, and simply a really perfect individual…please stay all the Robinson circle of relatives for your ideas and prayers.”

A lot of native and state companies, together with Texas Process Drive 2, are running in combination within the seek, police stated. Boyle informed Fox Information Virtual that the lively seek groups are “together with canine and boat or watercraft groups.”

“In crises like those, we’re blessed to serve a group that so badly desires to assist in anyway they are able to. Now we have dozens of first responders concerned on this seek, many with in depth coaching in looking out in hazardous stipulations,” Sherman police persevered of their observation, including that they recently should not have any further volunteers. 

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Will Robinson and his circle of relatives are pictured ahead of their tragic twist of fate on Christmas Eve. (Fb/Will Robinson)

The Sherman Police Division requested someone with noteworthy details about the case to name their non-emergency telephone quantity at 903-892-7290.

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“My advice is do not try to pressure via vital status water. You by no means know the way deep it’s, and automobiles don’t seem to be designed to do this,” Boyle informed Fox Information Virtual in a message to all drivers in rainy or flooding stipulations. “After getting misplaced keep an eye on of your skill to pressure your automotive, then you’re merely on the mercy of the water. And it may be very, very bad for occupants of the car.

“If you can not proceed down the roadway as a result of the huge status water this is going to move it… forestall and in finding differently round it. Name native police. Name native emergency services and products, and ask for suggestions should you don’t seem to be acquainted with the world.”