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Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to denote the activation during a property league astatine 2:15 p.m. CT. Watch the livestream and updates connected this story.
(NewsNation) — Gov. Greg Abbott directed authorities exigency absorption officials connected Thursday to activate effect resources arsenic a tropical upwind strategy threatens Southeast and East Texas with dense rainfall and unsafe rip currents successful the coming days.
The Texas Division of Emergency Management has positioned aggregate authorities agencies and specialized teams crossed the portion arsenic the National Hurricane Center monitors the strategy moving across the northeastern Gulf Coast.
"Texas is prepared to supply each indispensable resources to enactment section officials arsenic a terrible tempest strategy moves on the Gulf Coast towards East and Southeast Texas and the Texas Coast," Abbott said successful a statement.
At the Governor’s direction, the pursuing authorities exigency effect resources are disposable to enactment section tropical upwind effect operations:
- Texas Division of Emergency Management: The State of Texas Incident Management Team to enactment deployed exigency effect resources crossed the state
- Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (Texas A&M Task Force 1): Swiftwater Rescue Boat Squads to assistance with flood rescues
- Texas A&M Forest Service (Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System): Strike Teams consisting of unit and occurrence engines to enactment section departments
- Texas Department of State Health Services (Texas Emergency Medical Task Force): Severe Weather Support Packages consisting of medics, ambulances, and all-terrain vehicles
- Texas National Guard: High illustration vehicles to assistance stranded motorists
- Texas Department of Transportation: Personnel monitoring roadworthy conditions
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: Game Wardens, rescue vessel teams, and helicopters with hoist capableness to assistance with flood rescues
- Texas Department of Public Safety: Helicopters with hoist capabilities, Texas Highway Patrol Troopers, and the Tactical Marine Unit
- Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service: Disaster Assessment and Recovery Agents arsenic good arsenic County Extension Agents to enactment cultivation and livestock needs
- Public Utility Commission of Texas: Power outage monitoring and coordination with inferior providers
- Railroad Commission of Texas: Monitoring of the state’s earthy state proviso and connection with the lipid and state industry
- Texas Commission connected Environmental Quality: Air/water/wastewater monitoring
The exigency activation comes arsenic authorities agencies proceed supporting section effect efforts pursuing caller flooding crossed Texas.
At least 135 radical crossed Central Texas are confirmed dead, including dozens of children who were attending summertime campy successful the Hill Country, aft catastrophic flooding implicit the Fourth of July vacation weekend.
The flash flooding deluged summertime camps successful Kerr County, dotted on the Guadalupe River, and besides near families successful Burnet, Kendall, Tom Green, Travis and Williamson Counties looking for household members swept distant successful the floodwaters.
Officials reminded residents to enactment informed, travel section guidance, make exigency plans and physique proviso kits. Safety accusation is disposable astatine TexasReady.gov, weather.gov and noaa.gov.
NewsNation affiliate KXAN contributed to this report.
