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Texas tragedy: 59 dead and 27 girls still missing after devastating floods

Politiko 2025-07-06 17:48:24

Texas tragedy: 59 dead and 27 girls still missing after devastating floods

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas rose to 59 on Sunday, including 21 children, law enforcement officials said, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp entered its third day, writes Reuters .
Larry Leitha, the sheriff of Kerr County in the Texas Hill Country, the epicenter of the flooding, said 11 girls and a counselor remained missing from a camp near the Guadalupe River, which overflowed its banks after torrential rains lashed central Texas on Friday, the US Independence Day holiday.

Leitha said there were 18 adults and four children still awaiting identification. He did not say whether the 22 individuals were included in the 59-year-old death toll.
Officials said Saturday that more than 850 people had been rescued, including some who were clinging to trees, after a sudden storm dumped up to 15 inches (38 cm) of rain across the region, about 87 miles (140 km) northwest of San Antonio. It was not clear exactly how many people in the area were still missing.
“Everybody in the community is suffering,” Leitha told reporters.
Some experts questioned whether cuts to federal manpower by the Trump administration, including at the agency that oversees the National Weather Service, led to a failure by officials to accurately predict the severity of the flooding and issue adequate warnings ahead of the storm.

President Donald Trump and his administration have overseen thousands of job cuts from the National Weather Service's parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, leaving many weather offices understaffed, said former NOAA director Rick Spinrad.
He said he didn't know whether those staffing cuts had taken into account the lack of advance warning for the extreme flooding in Texas, but that they would inevitably degrade the agency's ability to provide accurate and timely forecasts.
 

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