Rescuers are looking for missing children after the flood in Texas kills over 40

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Rescuers were looking for more than two dozen girls missing in the summer camp in Texas after a catastrophic flood killed at least 43 people, including 15 children.

The Guadalupe River, which runs around the country of the hill in the central southern Texas, increased by 26 feet (8 meters) in just 45 minutes in the early Friday hours, according to officials, breaking banks and harmful roads and real estate.

The flood hit when people in the US gathered to celebrate Independence Day. Over 850 people were saved, some of whom kept the trees, which is called the flood once every century.

“We will be tenacious, making sure that we will locate every person who fell victim to this flood event, said Texas Governor Greg Abbott at a press conference in Kerrville.” We don’t intend to stop today or tomorrow. We’ll stop after the task. “

The governor signed an extended declaration of a state disaster, bringing the number of affected poviats to 20, due to additional damage to the storm and rainfall overnight. Two of these poviats include the cities of Austin and San Antonio, the third largest metropolitan area in a state where strong rain has been falling for many days. The governor also signed an application for a federal disaster declaration. Secretary of Internal Security Kristi Noem said that President Donald Trump swore to honor the application for federal help.

“The most important priority is now people, making sure that we will find people as soon as possible, and we return them to our families,” NEEM said. “In the section we will continue to bring more resources.”

Noem will visit Kerrville, including Camp Mystic, in which 27 missing girls stayed, and he will often talk to President Trump to ensure that other requests for help will be fulfilled immediately. There are 1,800 people without power in the area.

Search and rescue operations included helicopters, drones, 900 boats and over 1300 staff, said officials, but were difficult by limited access to some areas, especially where the roads were washed away.

Trump said that the flood and death were “terrible” and “shocking” when he promised federal support. More established aircraft and helicopters with thermal imaging devices will come from the US Coast Guard, so rescue operations can last overnight.

Officials in Kerr, northwest of San Antonio, said that extreme rainfall was not forecast, adding that there is no warning system. “We had no reason to think that it would be something like what happened here,” said Cerr Rob Kelly, the highest local clerk. “Nobody saw it.”

But the National Weather Service said that on Thursday he issued a flood on this area, with the first warning about the flood for Kerr Flood in the early hours of Friday morning. On Saturday he warned that there was a risk of more floods in the area. This area is located under numerous violent flood watches and warnings, when heavy downpours last.

Hannah Cloke, a professor of hydrology at the University of Reading in Great Britain, said that the downpour “seems to be well forecast by many forecasts around the world, a few hours earlier.”

“This is not enough for the authorities to say that they were not aware that floods were coming. The warnings were available, but the message simply did not go through,” she said.

The country in Texas Hill is not foreign to floods because of its geography. The area, called “Flash Flood Alley”, is marked by narrow, serpentine valleys and steep rocky hills that lie down the water down the river to nearby streams and rivers. When heavy rains come, the water cannot quickly soak into the ground because of a thin layer in the opposite of the soil lying on limestone and granite.

The Trump administration has submitted hundreds of jobs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its national weather service, and critics argue that movements disturb the country’s ability to create life -saving forecasts.

Scientists have warned that climate change increases the risk of destructive storms and heavy rainfall, because warmer air contains more moisture. Incorrect flooding of low-located areas-over 200 people In Valencia in Spain last year.

Bill McGuire, a retired professor of geophysical and climate threats at the University College London, said that “tragic events in Texas are exactly what you can expect in our hotter world that changes the climate.”

“In recent years there has been an explosion in extreme weather, including more destructive violent floods caused by slow, moist, storms that shed unique amounts of rain on small areas in a short time,” he said.