Texas flood victims: Girl 'having time of her life' and 'heart and soul' of camp
(long list, tragic stories)
52 confirmed dead now, 15 children, more than 2 dozen children still missing from the Christian girls camp.
... Local officials said over 12,000 homes have been damaged in the flooding ...
New bouts of rain could worsen deluge, trigger new flooding
More rain was expected to fall Sunday across the Texas Hill Country, threatening to trigger new floods and worsen the deluge in the devastated, rain-soaked region.
The National Weather Service in Austin and San Antonio said flood watches were extended into Sunday, when 2 to 4 inches of rain was expected to fall across parts of the region. Some isolated areas could see as much as 10 inches of rain.
"Any additional heavy rain will lead to flash flooding where it occurs and downstream," the weather service said.
... Tonia Fucci, a Pennsylvania resident visiting her grandmother for the Independence Day weekend, woke early Friday to the sound of heavy rain "coming down in buckets."
She heard something more ominous: loud, startling cracking noises.
"It's indescribable, the sounds, of how loud they were, which turned out to be ... the massive cypress trees that came down along the river," she told Reuters.
Fucci, who was staying near the Guadalupe River, filmed on her phone a torrent of muddy water flooding the road to her grandmother's house. She said she received National Weather alerts on her phone hours after the flood had already hit....
Thanks, MAGA.
... the number of missing is still a question mark. “Right now we’re kind of looking at this in two ways,” Rice said. “Call it the known missing, which is the 27 camp kids that are missing. We will not put a number on the other side because we just don’t know.”
... “We don't know how many people were in tents on the (river)side, in small trailers by the side, in rented homes by the side, because it was going to be the Fourth of July holiday" ...
Crap. There must be bunches of neighbors, friends and families that won't even know their people are missing until they don't return tonight.
Were there any warnings before the flooding?
... State emergency management officials had warned as early as Thursday that west and central Texas faced heavy rains and flash flood threats, citing National Weather Service forecasts ahead of the holiday weekend.
The forecasts, however, "did not predict the amount of rain that we saw," W. Nim Kidd, director of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, told a news conference Friday night.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-offici ... 34930.html
... U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Saturday it was difficult for forecasters to predict just how much rain would fall. She said the Trump administration would make it a priority to upgrade National Weather Service technology used to deliver warnings.
“We know that everyone wants more warning time, and that's why we're working to upgrade the technology that's been neglected for far too long to make sure families have as much advance notice as possible,” Noem said during a press conference with state and federal leaders....
How will that happen given the drastic NOAA and NWS cuts in budget and staff that Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, has overseen?
, I haven't heard anything about the FEMA cuts lately. Y'all?
Xtian camps in rural Texas - There were unconfirmed reports of leopards roaming during the night.
Hair, makeup, jewelry - Is she copying ICE Barbie Gnome, is Gnome copying her, or is MAGA just churning out clones these days?
Johnson the johnson is 2nd in line for the presidency. He doesn't get to play the "helpless" game, ever.
