Texas flooding death toll rises
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At least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods that saw the waters of the Guadalupe rise to historic levels in Central Texas, officials with Kerr County said Friday. Authorities have confirmed 103 deaths, 36 of whom are children.
Crews continue searching for victims a day after Gov. Greg Abbott said as many as 161 people could still be missing.
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The death toll from the catastrophic Texas floods has risen to at least 82 — with dozens more people missing and the number of those killed only expected to rise as the Lone Star State sifts
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The Texas Tribune on MSNKerrville mayor says he wasn’t aware of state resources that Gov. Abbott said were in place ahead of floodingKerrville’s mayor said he was unaware of any help sent by the state to his community ahead of the flood, a day after Gov. Greg Abbott said the state had “assets, resources and personnel” in place two days before a flood tore through the Hill Country.
Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas dimmed Tuesday, a day after the death toll surpassed 100, and crews kept up the search for people missing in the aftermath.
A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.
Texas Hill Country was unprepared for the July 4 nightmare flash floods that killed at least 120 people, with 173 still missing.
A National Weather Service advisory warned of another 2-4 inches of rain falling in the region − and isolated areas could see 9-12 inches.