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(NewsNation) — Heavy rains caused a catastrophic flood emergency successful Texas connected Friday, starring to multiple confirmed fatalities.
The Guadalupe River was overwhelmed by dense rains and residents adjacent the stream were advised to question higher ground, portion others were told to structure successful spot and not effort travel.
People person died successful Kerr County, though authorities have not confirmed the fig of deaths. Officials were inactive moving to place astir of the radical who died.
Roads were flooding successful Kerrville, which sits astir 60 miles northwest of San Antonio and has a colonisation of astir 25,000. There are besides reports of missing radical and authorities could not corroborate if each campers astatine an all-girls Christian summertime campy successful Hunt, Texas, were accounted for.
Authorities besides said dozens of h2o rescues had been performed arsenic the rain continued to fall.
Between 5 and 11 inches of rainfall had fallen by 9 a.m., according to the National Weather Service successful Austin and San Antonio, with much rainfall imaginable earlier the storms dissipate Friday afternoon. At 1 point, the rainfall reached a complaint of 4 inches per hour.
The country was enactment nether a flash flood warning. By Friday morning, the Guadalupe River successful occidental Kerr County had reached 29 feet, reaching the second-highest level connected record.
The stream surpassed flooding levels seen successful 1987, erstwhile floods killed 10 teenagers adjacent Comfort, Texas.
Officials successful Comfort issued mandatory evacuations connected Friday for residents on the stream and successful Kerrville, constabulary and firefighters were helping radical evacuate.
In San Angelo, Texas, photos showed a flooded intersection wherever h2o reached the level of thoroughfare signs and the upwind work bureau determination called the floods life-threatening.
Texas officials activated the National Guard and deployed the state's Department of Public Safety and different resources to the country to grip the flooding.
Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly told media outlets that determination was nary informing regarding the severity of the flood and said the region doesn't person a informing system.
The National Weather Service had placed the region nether a flood ticker Thursday night, with a flash flood informing issued astir 1 a.m.
