The number of deaths due to flooding in the center to the south Texas He rose this Sunday to 82, local authorities said.
Larry Leita is Jr. Sheriff of the district KerrOne of the most affected by the disaster announced at the press conference that 68 deaths were discovered in their jurisdiction, of which 40 were adults and 28 children.
Among the 68 deceased, 18 adults are unequalled, like 10 children.
We must add another 14 in other nearby districts: 6 in Travis, 3 in Bernet, 2 in Kendalla, 2 in Williamson and 1 in Tom Green, the channel said CNN.
Emergency teams are still looking for 10 girls and a monitor who were in a mystical Christian camp, when the water of the Guadalup river began to grow early on Friday in the morning.
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Although at first the local authorities did not establish a specific figure of the missing, since in this area many people defeated the camp outside the region on the occasion of the holidays on July 4, the governor of Texas Greg Ebbott estimated that today 41 disappeared.
This Sunday was expected more precipitation, and the National Meteorological Service (NWS) issued a warning about the supervision of floods up to 7 pm in local time, with additional clusters from 5 to 10 centimeters of rain and up to 25 centimeters in some isolated parts.
In the morning of Friday, rescue teams and volunteers are touring in the affected regions in search of victims: on foot helped with dogs or horses, boats, cars outside the road and helicopters.
The head of the department of emergency situations of Texas, Kidd also announced this Sunday that they had already begun with work on “recovery”, such as cleaning the wreckage and opening roads.
In Kerville, during the day, they could observe transitional things and trucks taking some garbage – like pieces of trees, metal and destroyed cars – and move them to clean the streets.
US President Donald Trump signed an emergency statement about natural disasters today in order to find floods in Texas and allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to activate in this area.
Trump said that he did not quickly move to Texas, so as not to interfere with the extraordinary work, and suggested that he would go to the devastated area on Friday.
The floods were devastated by the region known as the “country of Hill”, on the outskirts of San Antonio, before the festive weekend, where the community planned several events to celebrate US independence.
The Trump administration announced plans for gradual reduction and elimination of federal FEMA federal financing in order to transfer authority to the States regarding the response to natural disasters after the 2025 hurricane season.
In fact, the Minister of National Security Christie Nuem has already announced the abolition with a reduction, which amounts to almost $ 4,000 million two important FEMA programs, infrastructure communities and sustainable communities (Bric) and aid for mitigating floods (FMA).
