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Prior to the fourth part of the July Festival, Christopher blossoms checked the air while in a friend’s house along the Guadalupe River. Nothing in the forecast excited him.
After the time, in a hurry to safety: woke up in the dark, power cutting and ankle deep water. Quick, his family drove nine people in the attic. Phones, which sounded with signals, reminded the flowers on Saturday, but did not remember when they started in chaos.
“It is a kind of foreign system in which they need, as a tornado warning that tells people now,” Flowers, 44, said.
This The waters that moves destructive Started before the Friday Sun in the Texas Hill country led to the death of at least 43 people Kerr District, authorities were reported to be missing on Saturday, an unknown number of people. 27 girls from Camp mystics, were not included in the Christian summer camp along a river along a river, where the most dead were established.
Authorities have launched an investigation into preparations and why they have notified or evacuate why in the preparations, and why they have notified residents and young people along the tea.
National Weather Service sent a number of flash flood warnings before Friday, before giving the Flash flood emergencies – a rare warning about an inevitable threat.
Local officials did not see that no one saw the flood potential came and defended his actions.
“Many will be a quarter of the second guess and Monday morning,” said Republican US Representative ChIP Roy, the district Kerr County, who said, “said Republican US Representative ChIP Roy. “Why ‘Why’ and ‘How’ I have a lot of people, and I understand it.”
When the warnings begin
Primary flood – In general, the residents call on to be aware of the weather – on Thursday at 1:15 by local National Weather Services.
This is expected to rain with 5 to 7 inches (12.7 to 17.8 centimeters). Automated signals, including air messaging from the office, including the territory of Friday, and called on Friday early morning, and called on flood-inclined areas, and a meteorologist Jason Runyen in the National Weather Service office.
AM 4: 03, the office, the potential for catastrophic damage and an urgent warning that poses a serious threat to human life.
Jonathan Porter, a private weather forecast company using the National Weather Services Information, was reported to evacuate and other active measures to reduce the risk of death.
“People, businesses and governments should take action based on flash warnings, regardless of the amount of rain, which occurred or forecast,” Porter said.
Authorities say that they do not expect it
Local officials said they did not expect such a heavy rain in the value of months of rain for the region.
“We know it’s raining. We know the river rose,” Kerr District Judge Kelly was chosen the best official. “But no one saw this arrival.”
Kerrville city manager Dalton Rice said that he was soon running throughout the morning and did not see any problems in the morning, and the water level in 5:20 was acute and “We could not get out of the park.”
The rice also noted that the public can be resurrected by many weather warnings.
No county flood warning system
Kelly said in the district floods in the flood, this was considered a tornado warning siren, six or seven years ago, but did not leave the place due to the score.
“We looked at him before … He was sounded with the value of the people,” Kelly said.
He said the camps did not know what security and evacuation plans.
“I know that the flood first hit the camp, and it came to the middle of the night. I do not know where children are.” “I do not know what the alarm systems are. This will come out.”
US citizen Security Christi Noem, Saturday, said that the forecasts are difficult to estimate how much rain will fall. He said that Trump leadership will be a priority to improve the national weather service technology used to warn.
“We know that everyone wants more warning, and therefore, we are trying to develop technology for a long time to be aware that families are very much as possible,” he said during a press conference with Noem State and Federal leaders.
There was an air service additional staff
National Air Service Office, which gives predictions for Runhyen, Austin, San Antonio and surrounding areas, there was additional staff in the duty during the storms.
There were a fifth of the employees where the office usually had two predictions during the open air.
“That night there were additional people here and are typical in the office of every air service – you have employees for an event and keep people in work and keep people in work.”
