The number of victims of the devastating tidal floods, which hit several districts in the central part of the US state of Texas, has already exceeded the number 100. The local authorities report a total of at least 104 victims of lives, most of which in the Kerr district, where the quest teams have already discovered 84 dead bodies, including 28 children.
However, there is still extensive search for the missing and, according to the authorities, the number of victims will certainly grow, TASR writes, according to AP. MThere are also 27 participants and the Summer Christian Camp for girls Camp Mystic in the mentioned Kerr district in the middle of Texas, It is approached by AFP.
Local meteorologists warn of other floods. Other rains are expected, which is complicated by searching work on any water -saturated soil, which also involves rescuers in helicopters, boats or search dogs.
US President Donald Trump plans to visit Texas on Friday. He informed the White House on Monday, and at the same time condemned critics claiming that Trump’s cuts in federal authorities, including meteorological, contributed to the allegedly insufficient flood warnings. “The accusation of President Trump from these floods is an immoral lie and now – at a time of national sadness – has no sense,“Said the White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.
The US National Meteorological Service (NWS), which, according to the New York Times, had several important posts in front of the Texas floods, according to Leavitt, it issued “Early and precise predictions and warning” in terms of floods.
Trump himself described floods as a disaster that happens every hundred years that “no one expected”. Trump said some time ago that the management of disasters and their consequences should be addressed at the level of individual states. However, as AFP recalls, the context of Texas floods signed a statement on the so -called. extensive disaster, releasing other sources at the federal level for aid.
The devastating floods in the area northwest of the Texas City of San Antonio caused a storm, during which there was so many rainfall in a short time, which usually in a few months. As a result, the level of the local Guadalupe river increased by less than eight meters in less than an hour.
