In early July 4, the voice of many holidays, along with the edge of Gadalpa, would only hear that the rain and thunderstorms were shining. They did not find any official warning about the increasing waters, which eventually proved fatal to dozens of people in the Flash flood in Central Texas.
Investigators have been sorting after a natural disaster that killed more than 100 people and more than 160 others have gone missing, which is now trying to collect it. They are trying to indicate that the weather forecasters first advised local officials about the destructive flood capacity, and these officials did this message to thousands of revelations in the area on the weekend of the July fourth holiday. With the officials of the state, the county and the city, information from the tricks and stories has been revealed, their attention insists that they should be focused on and recover, not the analysis of wrongdoing.
On Tuesday, for more than four days after the devastation, several reporters from a news conference pressured Kerr County Sheriff Larry Lata in detail when local officials knew that floods were a problem and whether they consider the evacuation order.
“This is not my priority right now. Officials refused to answer the question, who was monitoring the warnings or guiding emergency preparation efforts. They will not say how many people are missing, and there is no idea of the number of people who were present in the area when the floods were present in the area.”
What is definitely known is that the area had a deadly delege history and was locally known as “Flash Flood Galle”. It lacked public alarm or warning sirens, due to the costs needed to partially set up, which could awaken people overnight and send them to high ground. Climate warnings were sent to mobile phones in this area, but service is widely prominent in the rural region. Wi -Fi contacts that will usually provide backups, even more failed, as much as most of the area was lost during the rains.
Letha said his team is focused on recovery works and still has to collect his timeline.
Governor Greg Abbott said 161 people were missing as a result of the flood and that the number could increase with further information.
“The list may increase, he told reporters on Tuesday,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
Questions about being wrong are intensifying as the search staff shouted slogans through thick mud and debris, hoping for more survivors in search of victims, though no one has been found alive on Friday. Officials have described the task as mentally and physically sad, in which unstable debris piles and efforts to restore the river Gadalpay complicated.
Overall, 109 people have been confirmed across the state, and officials say it is expected to increase. The victims include Camp mystic, a girls’ summer camp’s 27 campers and advisers.
The backers told the news outlets that they were awakened by barking dogs, glowing to shining rescue lights, or sharp storms, which caused them to be tossing at night. Some got out of bed in cold water on the floor, or neighbors shocked him while firing on the doors.
Immediately to the flood. Later, state and local officials suggested that national climate services predict the situation is not resembled, with which they are sick to work. And really, when some service bulletin warned about heavy rain, in some places the original rain was even worse.
But the agency informed the regional emergency organizers about the dangers a day before the destruction and issued several warnings during July 3, saying heavy rainfall and floods were likely. On that day, 6:22 pm, a consultative came out that the rain would be 3 inches per hour or more. Flash flood warnings for Bandira County went out at 11 o’clock at 41 minutes, which was the center of destruction, Kerr County, the weather service on July 4 at 1:14 am. The bulletin suggested the “destructive” flood.
The Weather Service said that automatic wireless emergency warnings were sent to capable mobile devices and were also broadcast on Noaa weather radio. The Office of the National Weather Service said that all alerts were sent by integrated public alert warning system and there was no report of transmission failure.
Kerwel City manager Dalton Rice said on the morning of July 4 that he was walking around the river around 3am, when the seasonal service sent a warnings, and the river did not feel any significant increase. He also said that he did not demand the evacuation because he feared that the fleeing people would be trapped by growing waters and would create traffic chaos.
He said the first respondents were out at 3:30 am, and even with high -speed water training, at least one road was swept away. “It’s very difficult,” Delton told reporters on Monday. ” “We want to make sure we activate at the right time.”
Homeland Security Secretary Christie Nim said at a briefing weekend that federal officials would consider it if more warnings could be provided. In the same program, he also said, “We have assets on the ground, since the crisis began this season since it began and we were already alerted.”
Since President Donald Trump took office, national climate services and its basic agency Noaa preparation have been scrutinizing. Retirement and other departures have reduced two Texas locations of the Weather Service, though the two had additional workers on the site leading to the flood due to an emergency.
“All predictions and warnings were issued in a timely manner,” a press official said in response to questions.
Questions about what happened wrong have focused on the lack of public warning system for floods, such as the type used on other rivers in the United States. Tips were considered in other parts of the Kerr County and Texas mountainous country, which gave a deadly flood date, including deaths in the youth camps in the 1980s, but were considered very expensive.
Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly told the New York Times that locals whose taxes fund the system. “Taxpayers will not pay for it,” Kelly told the Times.
Since the devastation, Abbott said that there will be a special meeting of the Texas legislature to raise the issue of river warning systems. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said the state would find a way to pay for the natural destruction alarm system for the area. Echo Wider estimates that the catastrophe could lead to $ 18 billion to $ 22 billion in loss of economic losses and property damage across the state.
Patrick’s office said in a statement, “The state will provide sirens for emergency warnings wherever needed.” Lieutenant Governor “is fully supportive and is confident that the legislature will have full support.”
Texas is particularly suffering from natural catastrophe. It is a large state that has a diverse climate, from humid swamp to barren desert. The distance between Texarkana in the east and El Paso in the west is about 73 731 miles (1,175 km) or more than the distance between Chicago and New York City.
According to the record of national seasonal services, in the last decade, Texas has been in the top 10 states for economic losses, which is top the list three times in 2015, 2017, and 2019, and is second in 2016, 2022 and 2023. From 2015 to 2024, 654 people have died as a direct result of the weather. Texas accounts for 31 % of all the losses caused by extreme weather in the United States over the past 10 years.
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