Texas floods death toll climbs to more than 100

The death toll from the floods that hit central Texas on Friday increased to more than 100 people, and an unknown number of others is missing.

Search and rescue teams wander through the shores of the river in the clay, as they threaten more rain and thunderstorms in the area, but hope was fading from finding any survivors after four days of the disaster.

Camp Mestic, a Christian summer camp, confirmed all girls, at least 27 girls and employees among the dead. Ten girls and consultants in the camp are still missing.

Meanwhile, the White House rejected suggestions that budgets in national weather service (NWS) could prevent disaster response.

At least 84 of the victims – 56 adults and 28 children – died in the province of Kiir, where the Guadalobi River was swollen due to heavy rains before Friday, the fourth year in July.

The Sharif County Office said that about 22 adults and 10 children have not yet been identified.

“Our hearts are broken alongside our families that bear this unimaginable tragedy,” Camp Mestic said in a statement on Monday.

Richard Estland, 70, died of co -owner and director of Camp Mestic, trying to save children, according to the Austin American Stetman.

“The whole society will miss it [Mr Eastland]. He died a hero. “

At its latest expectations, NWS expected more slow thunderstorms, which could bring more floods in the region.

The Trump administration’s critics have sought to link the disaster to thousands of discounts in the agency at the Motherhood Agency “NWS”, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The NWS office in charge of predicting the region had five employees in the service, as thunderstorms were fermented on Texas Thursday evening, which is the usual number to turn overnight when he expected harsh weather.

White House press secretary Caroline Levit rejected attempts to blame the president.

“This was a job from God,” she told a daily newspaper on Monday.

“The administration’s mistake is not that the flood hit when that happened, but there were early and consistent warnings, and again, the national weather service did it.”

She explained that the NWS office in Austin Saint Antonio conducted a briefing to local officials on the eve of the flood and sent an hour of flooding that afternoon, before issuing many flood warnings that night and in the pre -dawn hours of July 4.

Trump, who is expected to visit Texas later this week, was asked when he was asked on Sunday whether the federal government discounts hindered disaster response, and it appears at first that it turned into what he called “Biden”, referring to his democratic predecessor.

“But I will not blame Biden for that,” he added. “I would just say that this is a 100 -year disaster.”

Sinator Texas Ted Cruz, a Republican, told a press conference on Monday that it was not the time to “prepare the party finger.”

One of the local activists, Nicole Wilson, has a petition calling for the creation of flood sirens in Kiir Province – something in other provinces.

Such a system has been discussed in CARE province nearly a decade, but money has not been allocated.

Gov Dan Patrick Texas Lt Dan Patrick on Monday admitted that these alarm sirens may have saved lives, and said she should be in place next summer.

Meanwhile, condolences continued to flow from all over the world.

King Charles III wrote to President Trump to express his “deep sorrow” about catastrophic floods.

The British embassy in Washington said that the king was “a deepest sympathy” for those who lost his loved ones.