Heavy rain in Texas halts rescue efforts as officials warn of further flooding | Texas floods 2025
On Sunday, heavier rains in Texas paused a week for catastrophic flood victims along the Guadalupe River, and the authorities caused high water recovery in other places because the torrential rainfall warned that water can cause waterways.
For the first time since the July 4 floods that killed at least 129 people, he had paused a new violent air tour. Authorities believe that more than 160 people can still be lost in Kerr County.
In Kerrville, where local authorities were examined about the warnings given to the residents, the authorities went to the door to some houses after midnight to warn people that floods were possible again. Authorities also pushed warnings to the phones of the people in the region.
A expression Kerrville called not to try to travel unless the residents escaped from an area under the order of flood or evacuation.
“Please keep watching at low water passes and look for a higher floor if the flood starts. Return, don’t drown!” City officials added.
Accordingly New warnings put forward by the National Weather Service, the risk of flash floods continues this morning in the parts of the Texas Hill Country.
NWS, “the scope and size of the incident, the last night, which occurred in the early hours of the morning, but some additional flash flood effects are likely … And localized significant effects continue to be possible,” he said.
Moreover induced In the early hours of this morning, a flash warning for Western Llano and North-West Gillespie was in force, especially according to the Llano District, significant rain fell and water raid is expected.
Similarly, a flash flood warning residues Buchanan Dam, Buchanan Lake and Valley until 15:45 in the spring, And Watson and Briggs up to 16:00 ct.
As part of his warnings, NWS residents urged immediately to move to a higher place and avoid walking or driving in flood waters.
Ingram Firefighters ordered the search teams to immediately evacuate the Guadalupe River corridor in Kerr district. Firefighter spokesman Brian Lochte said that search and rescue efforts are expected to continue on Monday, depending on the river flow.
“We work with a few crew and air boats and SAR (search and rescue) boats, Lo said Lochte, Lochte, Lochte, Lochte.
When the heavy rain fell on Sunday, the National Weather Service predictions warned that the Guadalupe River could rise about 15FT (4.6 meters) at a height of about 5 ft in the afternoon on Sunday afternoon, and that the Camp Mystic is located along the river Hunt 39.
An Weather Service warning warning, “Numerous secondary roads and bridges are flooded and very dangerous,” he said.
The rains also caused other water roads to swell to the north in Texas, where emergency teams saved a driver stranded in the waist high Rapids on a wrecking bridge on the Bosque River. While the crew tried to reach him with his life vests, the man leaned against the vehicle for support.
McGregor Volunteer Fire Department President Jeff Douglas said, “He went to it and did not realize how deep he was.” “Fortunately, he was able to stand next to the vehicle.”
Under the heavy rain, Matthew Stone was cleaning a storm sewage in front of his house on Guadalupe Street in Kerrville on Sunday.
More than one house overlooking the Guadalupe River on the street was seriously influenced by the July 4 floods, and Stone had to withdraw its old neighbors from their homes before passing water. He said he felt safely.
“My wife was going crazy, this is certain, but we’ll be good as long as that river doesn’t go down,” he said. “The cops come back and forth, we get a lot of warnings, we get a lot of support.”
Just before Daybreak on July, the destructive, fast -moving waters rose 26FT on the Guadalupe River, washed their homes and vehicles. Since then, the searchers have used helicopters, boats and drones to search for victims and to save people who were stranded from camps in trees and wasolated ways.
The floods left waste to Texas’s hill country. Kerr County’s river coast and hills are full of camp areas, including holiday cabinets, youth camps and Camp Mystic, Camp Mystic, century, all girls, Christian summer camps.
Located in a low area along the Guadalupe River in a region known as Flash Flood Alley, Camp Mystic lost at least 27 campers and consultants.
Sel, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was much more violent than the 100 -year activity envisaged by the 100 -year event, experts and moving so fast in the middle of the night and a warning system in a district, he said.
It was too much rain crushing. Former NOAA Chief scientist Ryan Maue calculated that the storm on July 5th that the storm fell to Kerr County’s 120bn gallon water, which took the storm.
On Sunday, internal security secretary Kristi Noem, Donald Trump said he wanted to do it to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instead of being completely eliminated.
Speaking with the NBC, Noem defended the reaction of the Trump administration to the floods of Texas who killed at least 120 people: “I think the President Acknowledges that the President Fema should not exist as always.
His comments follow a widespread critique of Trump administration’s handling Texas floods reports Thousands of calls from Taskin victims were left unanswered by FEMA’s call centers due to enlarged contracts.
