The report from the sudden in the southern US amounted to 50 dead, the authorities announced yesterday night (local time), while investigations are continuing to locate nearly 30 children who are still missing.
The floods were caused by the torrentials that hit areas of Central Texas on Friday, the Day of Independence for them.
Drowned 15 children – 27 still ignored by floods
“We have found 43 dead in Kerr County”, of which 28 adults and 15 children, said Larry Larry’s sheriff during a press conference.
Stone added that 27 children were still missing, out of the 750s who participated in a summer Christian camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River.
The owner and manager of “Camp Mystic” is also dead, according to the Kerville city website, as well as the manager of another nearby camp.
Four people died in Travis County due to floods as well as two in Bernet County. Another man was killed in Tom Green County, local authorities said.
The Texas Emergency Management Officer, Nim Kid, said teams are investigating air, land and in the water the Guadalupe River in search of survivors or dead.
“We will continue our investigations until all the missing are identified,” he said.
In a state of emergency Texas
For his part, Texas Greg Greg Abbott declared the state in a state of natural disaster and requested additional resources from the US federal government.
In Kerville yesterday, the waters of the Guadalupe River, which is usually calm, ran in the rush, having dragged trees and debris in their passage.
“The water reached the height of the trees, about 10 meters or more,” said Gerardo Martins, a resident of the area. “The river lowers cars, whole houses,” he added.
Interior Security Minister Christie Noem assured that President Donald Trump wants to “modernize the technologies” available by meteorological predictions and risk prevention services while the Republican government is being criticized because it has significantly reduced them.
‘Incorrect rain forecasts, quantity was twice as much’
Asked about the complaints of residents who said they had not received a warning of the risk of flooding in a timely manner, Noem replied that “I will convey their concerns to the federal government”.
According to Dalton Rice, a local Kerville official, in some areas the water has reached “at the level of flooding we have been seeing for 100 years”.
“The forecasts were obviously wrong,” he added, the amount of rain “was twice as expected.”
In the field of Camp Mystic the water had fallen largely yesterday, revealing the huge disasters, with cars turned over or drifted out of the water and some being wedged on trees.
The places where the girls were hosted are destroyed, the floor is covered with mud and the windows have been broken by the rush of water.
About 500 rescuers with 14 helicopters have been mobilized in search of survivors and victims, while Texas National Guard and Coast Guard have sent aid.
According to authorities, the level of the Guadalupe River rose almost 8 meters on Friday in about 45 minutes, in which “almost 300 mm of rain per hour” fell, one -third of the average annual rainfall in that county.
About 850 people were abolished.
The sudden floods caused by torrential rains that the soil that is dried due to drought cannot be absorbed, are not unusual. However, according to the scientific community, anthropogenic climate change has made the weather – such as floods, droughts and heatwaves – more often and intense.
In mid -June, 13 people died due to floods in San Antonio, near the area that was hit on Friday, due to waterfalls.
