Texas flash flood claims at least 27 lives

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At least 27 people have died and more than 20 children are lost after a catastrophic flash in Texas.

The Guadalopy River, which passes through Hill Control in the center of South Texas, rose 26 feet (8 meters) in just 45 minutes in the early hours of Friday, according to officials, its banks exploded, destroyed roads and property.

On Saturday, rescue workers continued to search for more than 20 missing children from a summer camp they were attending. It hit the flood while people gathered all over the United States to celebrate Independence Day.

“The rescue teams have worked throughout the night and will continue until we find all our citizens,” said the Kerville City Police Administration on Facebook on Saturday.

The officials said the searches and rescue operations included helicopters, drones, boats and hundreds of employees, but they hindered them with limited access to some areas, especially when the roads were washed.

president Donald Trump said that floods and deaths were “terrible” and “shock” as he pledged to federal support.

Officials in CARE, northwest of San Antonio, said that severe rains were not expected, adding that there is no warning system in place. “We had no reason to believe that this would be like what happened here,” said Kiir Rob Kelly province, the local official, said.

However, the national weather service said it had issued flood monitoring on Thursday, with the first flood warning in CARE in the early hours of Friday morning. On Saturday, it warned that there is a danger to more floods in the region.

Hana Kluk, a professor of hydrology at the University of Reding University, said that the rains “seem to have been well predicted by many predictors around the world, several hours ago.”

She said: “It is not good for the authorities to say that they were not aware that the floods were coming. The warnings were available, but the message did not pass.”

The Trump administration has dismantled hundreds of jobs in the National Oceanic and Attract Administration and the national weather service with critics that argue that the movements will weaken the country’s ability to produce life -saving predictions.

Scientists have warned that climate change increases the risk of destructive storms and severe precipitation because the warmer air carries more moisture. The murder of sudden flood-a rapid immersion of the low areas-more than 200 people in Valencia, Spain last year.

“The tragic events in Texas are exactly what we expect in our most hot and climate world,” said Bill McGueri, an honorary professor in geophysical risks and climate at College University.

He said: “There has been an explosion in harsh weather in recent years, including destructive destructive floods resulting from slow and humidity storms, which get rid of exceptional amounts of rain on small areas within a short period.”