(Bloomberg) – Emergency crews in the middle Texas suspended their search for the victims of recent catastrophic floods when the next night of heavy rain touched new flash warning.
The Kerr County sheriffs ordered volunteers, equipment and vehicle to release the area around the Guadalupe River because the water is expected to rise, she said on her Facebook page. The 39 motorway in the area was closed for all vehicles with the exception of population and emergency workers.
“It’s a dangerous and life -threatening situation,” Sheriff’s office said. “Don’t try to travel if you run out of the area subject to floods or on the basis of an evacuation command.”
The last round of the storm comes just more than a week after the area was destroyed by the Flood 4. July, which killed at least 120 people and left many other missing.
The wide range of the region reached overnight between 2 and 4 inches (5 to 10 cm), some places gaining more than 8 inches because the storms continue to pound, Scott Kleebauer, prediction in the American prediction center. More storms with predictions later during the day.
“It’s one of these sets; there will certainly be strong precipitation tonight,” Kleebauer said. “These areas are so sensitive, so any type of heavy rainfall could cause a problem.”
Governor Greg Abbott said in a post on social media that Texas is rescued in three districts in the middle part of the state, while the evacuation continued in others.
“We are expanding operations in all affected districts – all in monitoring growing waters in Kerrville,” Abbott said.
The area north and west of Austin, the capital of the state, was hit by devastating floods of 4 July, when heavy downpours caused the river levels to rise at surprising speed.
Kerrville, a small town of about 55 miles (85 km) northwest of San Antonio and the headquarters of Kerr County, was particularly hard. Among other things, the swollen Guadalupe river hit the girls’ summer camp and killed at least 27 children and advisors.
Local, state and federal officials have been under control since the event over their initial reaction, especially how regional susceptible to floods lacked warning sirens when forecasts warned against the dangers of lightning floods. President Donald Trump visited Kerrville on Friday.
It is assumed that the Guadalupe River in Kerrville will increase by almost 6.8 feet on Sunday afternoon, the National Meteorological Service said. Meanwhile, the San Saba River in the city of the same name, northwest of Austin, has increased by more than 2 feet and is expected to increase another 20 feet on Tuesday.
Flood watches range from the southern Texas on the Mexican border along the Eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas. The area northwest of Austin is covered with flash floods until Sunday morning, when the radar picked up storms that carried an area that dropped rain at 2 to 4 inches at the top of what was received overnight.
(Update with Abbott Post in the seventh paragraph.)
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