Following unsuccessful efforts of finance and construction of a public alarm network after years, which would warn the inhabitants of Ker County, Texas about dangerous floods, the officials of the region launched the “Flash Flood Elle” nickname, which were beginning to develop a centralized flood monitoring system in this heat to help them plan leaders and emergency managers.
On July 4, Storm in Central Texas The Guadalup river caused overflow, which exceeded 26 feet in about an hour in the morning. At least 121 people of several counties have been confirmed dead so far, and are missing even more six days after the disaster. Local authorities said on Thursday that most of the deaths took place in Ker County, where at least 96 people fell into flood waters and there were one and 161 untouchables. In the hunt, a part of the county faced especially malignant floods, At least 27 children and consultants The camp is one of the dead from the summer camp of girls named Camp Mistic, the camp announced.
The upper Guadalupa River Authority, a leadership board managing the river, approved funding for a dashboard earlier this year, “to support the local flood monitoring and emergency response,” A spokesman of the Joint Information Center established in Ker County said in a statement on Thursday.
The statement said, “While real-time streamflow and rainfall data are already available through various sources, this new tool will bring those datasets to a platform for Ker County to increase the purpose for emergency managers.” “It is not a public warning system, but a decision-supporting resource aims to complement the existing infrastructure.”
The upper Guadalupa River Authority pulls back to the minimum of the board meeting by at least August 2024 that reflects plans. Last year, the River Authority requested dialects for a “flood warning” dashboard that would add many sources of the weather to a device and forecast data, aimed at assisting their own employees, local emergency management coordinators and leaders as they decided about possible flood incidents. The part of the project also asked for recommendations to improve monitoring equipment in the county related to future flood warnings.
An environmental technology company, Castors North America, was selected as a contractor for the project in April, when Ker County also presented a dangerous mitigation scheme to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, with a danger flooded.
According to the Joint Information Center at Ker County, the contract was launched in June, and initial meetings with curses to develop flood monitoring dashboards were introduced, “But in the light of recent events, in light,” according to the Joint Information Center in Ker County, the timeline will be re -evaluated.
How the weather alert and forecast warning has contributed to the results of the last week’s floods in Ker County, but the toll of death has raised many questions whether they can be done to protect those people to protect them. A CBS news analysis He found 22 warnings The National Weather Service was released for the storm and flash flooding for Ker County. However, some local residents said that they either did not receive an emergency alert on their phone or they received late, while others said that they did not understand the severity of the situation until the flood really became a hit.
Judge Rob Kelly, a leading officer of Ker County, said at a news conference on Friday that There is no warning system in their area Established for weather events and suggested that a role in lack of preparations can be played. County officials discussed earlierA public alarm system nstalling But due to the cost, he did not proceed.
