In the district of Kerr in the central Texas, torrential rains dropped up to 10 inches, which triggered lightning floods that killed at least 13 people with more deaths.
The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in just 45 minutes near Hunt and broke the 1987 flood records, when the water swept the car, undressed the victims of clothes and left the bodies unidentified.
Helicopters and ships saved the survivors who held on trees, while more than 20 people remained missing, including campers in Riverside.
The Summer Camp crisis as a water trap
Chaos absorbs the mystic camp, where 20 girls were not involved at the “catastrophic flood level” hit the place of 750 kampers.
Fourteen helicopters and 12 drones explored the area and jerked the children and advisors from the treetops hills after midnight, which fell asleep.
Although Camp Waldemar confirmed all the campers safe, the panicked parents flooded the social media with photographs and begged: “The names of the saved posts!” One mother desperately sought her daughter’s family, most recently seen in a hunting cabin.
The warning ignored as a river drowning
Despite the National Weather Service (NWS), Judge Kerr County Rob Kelly, the National Weather Service (NWS), “no one knew this flood was coming,” even though local reporters quoted warnings.
Meteorologist Bob Fogarty explained that the break of the Hunt River failed after recording a 22-foot increase and remarked, “You don’t know how bad it is until it is up to you”.
Critics asked why the camps were not evacuated, given the forecasts of “5-7 inches” and the history of the region as “the most dangerous America of the Greek”.
Multi-State tolls as the storm will cancel the fourth July
In addition to Texas, the violent storms in New Jersey killed three, including a 79 -year -old and 25 -year -old, crushed by a falling tree on their car in Plainfield.
Mayor Adrian Mapp canceled the city show and fireworks and called him a “persistent reminder of the power of nature”. In Connecticut, Hail caused the cars to leave the roads in the middle of extensive power outages.
Texas opened four emergency shelters in Kerrville and urged communities downstream, such as comfort to evacuate immediately.
(Tagstotranslate) torrential rains
