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Days after flash floods killed over 100 people during the July Fourth weekend, search-and-rescue teams are using heavy equipment to untangle and peel away layers of trees, unearth large rocks in riverbanks and move massive piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for the missing people.
While extreme rainfall events are less common in the Golden State than in the South, scientists warn that flash flooding is becoming increasingly likely as climate change reshapes our weather patterns.
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KERRVILLE, Texas (Reuters) -The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109, many of them children, as search teams pressed on through mounds of mud-encrusted debris looking for scores of people still missing.
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Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as at least 27 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floods tore through central Texas overnight.
Kerr County and the broader Hill Country region lies in “Flash Flood Alley”, a band of central Texas that curves south from Dallas through Austin, then west via San Antonio to the Mexican border. Warm,
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Coming in well ahead of the rest of the U.S. states are Texas, California and Florida, with respective prison populations of 219,000, 199,000 and 157,000.
Residents of Waterloo region and Guelph are unlikely to face catastrophic flooding, but local officials say overland and riverine floods remain concerns for the Grand River watershed.