The death toll from Texas flooding over the weekend surpassed 100 on Monday evening as search and rescue teams continue the hunt for dozens of missing victims. 

At least 104 people are dead across six counties. In Kerr County, which was hit hardest by the disaster, officials reported the death toll climbed to 84, including 28 children, up from 75 on Monday morning. 

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Identification is pending for 22 adults and 10 children as the state reels from the disaster that claimed the lives of 27 young girls at Kerr County’s Camp Mystic. Eleven people from the all-girls Christian summer camp remain unaccounted for as the likelihood of finding survivors from the catastrophic Fourth of July flooding fades. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said Sunday that more than three dozen people were still missing across multiple counties hit by the disaster.

In addition to the latest death toll in Kerr County, local officials reported on Monday reported 20 deaths across Travis, Burnet, Kendall, Tom Green, and Williamson counties, according to the Austin American-Statesman. 

“This flood tested us, but it also reminded us of who we are. We still have work to do, but I have no doubt that we will move forward together and stronger,” Kendall County Judge Shane Stolarczyk said.

Local officials are facing growing accusations that counties did not have sufficient safety measures in place and failed to swiftly evacuate at-risk communities, decisions that critics say influenced the high death toll. 

The state’s lieutenant governor acknowledged on Monday that lives could have been saved if there were flood-warning sirens along the river. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick commented on news reports of officials saying residents didn’t have emergency sirens because counties said they couldn’t afford them. Alerts went out to phones in the middle of the night, and many people didn’t hear them, Patrick said.

“The state needs to step up and pay for these,” he added. “Had we had sirens along this area, the same type of sirens that they have in Israel when there’s an attack coming, that would have blown very loudly, it’s possible that that would have saved some of these lives.”

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has pushed back against questions about why flood alerts were issued “while people were likely sleeping,” arguing that the National Weather Service issued escalating warnings regarding the weather forecasts on Thursday as information came in.

“So people were sleeping in the middle of the night when this flood came — that was an act of God,” Leavitt said. “It’s not the administration’s fault that the flood hit when it did, but there were early and consistent warnings.”