Another swing, from Kerr County, realizes that there are at least 21 children killed following the floods who swept the center of Texas since Friday. Authorities continue to look for missing while more rain threatens to aggravate the tragedy. The forecast points to intermittent precipitation until Tuesday, with a trend for drier and hot time in the second half of the week
The number of dead caused by the floods that devastated the center of Texas since Friday has risen to 67, the CNN International. Among the confirmed victims are at least 21 children, he said, quoted by Reuters, the sheriff of Kerr County, one of the most affected zones by the flood caused by torrential rainfall. The balance may still get worse. There are dozens of missing and the weather forecast points to more precipitation until Tuesday.
President Donald Trump also declared this Sunday the largest disaster state for Kerr County. “These families are living an unimaginable tragedy, with many lost lives and many yet to locate,” he wrote on social networks. The presidential decree aims to accelerate the sending of federal means to support relief on the ground. “It is to ensure that our brave first rescuers immediately have the resources they need,” Trump said.
The statement comes at the moment when local authorities struggle to respond to the trail of destruction left by a rare atmospheric conjugation: the remaining tropical moisture of the Barry storm combined with a low -property low pressure system, feeding successive storms over the same territory.
“We are saturated,” Sintetized Jason Runyen, meteorologist at the National Meteorology Service (NWS) in Austin. “Even if it doesn’t rain the 25 centimeters that are forecast for some areas, any additional amount can further aggravate the situation.” The region’s watersheds have retreated slightly, but remain vulnerable. The risk of sudden floods was classified as level 2 by 4 by the NWS storm forecast center, valid until Monday afternoon to the north, downtown Texas and Hill Country.
The rains, which began on Friday, rocked roads, dragged mobile houses, and forced the rescue of hundreds of people over terrestrial and air. Search operations take place at a continuous rhythm. The final number of dead may take days to find out, the authorities warn.
“It’s an unprecedented catastrophe for this community,” said the sheriff of Kerr County, whose population surrounds the 50,000 inhabitants. “We are still counting the missing. There are whole families from which we have no news since Saturday.”
