A week after the start of the floods in Texas, US President Donald Trump traveled to the disaster area. His wife Melania is there. The two arrived on Friday afternoon in Kerrville (local time) – an area that is particularly violent by the floods.
According to American media reports, at least 119 people were killed, 95 of them alone in the Kerr County area. Among them are 36 children, said the area of the area, Larry Leitha, on Thursday. Even more than 160 people miss in the region.
Media reported that Trump can be flown over the disaster area in the helicopter and talk to rescue workers. “What a tragic situation,” said the US president at the start of the week. He was criticized for his cutbacks in the Weerservice and the American climate protection authority Noaa.
Rented to residents too late?
The Tageschau reported on Friday that more than 2,000 emergency services and volunteers continued to look for missing people. “It is a very difficult task to find victims in the flowing water, in the mud and the rubble, between fallen trees, flushed houses and car wrecks. It cannot take weeks if not for months,” said Russel Honoré, a retired general.
Many wonder whether the residents were warned too late or not at all. This review will come later, Seriff Leitha said. Everything would be investigated, he promised. The former civil protection officer for the district said he wanted to build a warning system with sirens. The money from the country and the federal government was not enough.
Trump “did not want to stand in the way”
Donald and Melania Trump were planning to spend a few hours in Texas on Friday and to speak with survivors and emergency services. That is why he did not travel to the American state before not to stand in the way, the president said. The flood is an “inevitable natural power” and “hundred -year -old disaster”. His administration, however, pursued the concerns of the citizens, for example with regard to non -occupied areas at the National Weather Service, he was cited by the New York Times.
Trump had previously accused the previous government under bidder of neglected disaster management. He provided federal funds for the natural disaster in Texas. In the south of Texas, rivers have repeatedly stepped over the coasts and camps were built in the middle of an area with extreme flood risk.
Source: Krone
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