Texas, flash flood and disaster relief
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The forecast comes on the heels of heavy rain in Louisiana and Mississippi on Thursday, major and disruptive flooding that forced a state of emergency in New Jersey, and deadly flash floods in Texas that took the lives of at least 135 people, including children at a Christian girls’ camp.
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Texas flooding explainedFOX 26 meteorologist Remiesha Shade takes a look at what caused the devastating flooding in Central Texas over the weekend and when they could finally see some relief.
Heavy rains fell quickly in the predawn hours of Friday in the Texas Hill Country, causing the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes.
Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social media. It is not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
While looking into Birmingham, Alabama, chief meteorologist James Spann ‘s new weather network, we saw that he felt compelled to get on social media recently to explain away conspiracy theories surrounding the deadly Texas floods that killed more than 100 people earlier this month.
“If you’ve never seen water rise in front of you in minutes, it’s hard to conceive of how quickly that can happen—and how quickly your life and property can be at risk,” said Rachel Hogan Carr, executive director of the Nurture Nature Center, a nonprofit focused on flood-risk communication.
This is false. It is not possible that cloud seeding generated the floods, according to experts, as the process can only produce limited precipitation using clouds that already exist.
Some people online suggested cloud seeding conducted by the company Rainmaker Technology Corporation was to blame for deadly flooding in Texas.
A Texas man tried saving people at the RV park he owns during the Texas flood disaster nearly two weeks ago, but watched many people — including a family of four — slip away.
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Taste of Country on MSNUpdate: Details Revealed for Robert Earl Keen’s Texas Floods Benefit ShowKeen has announced a date for his benefit concert for those impacted by the Texas floods. Miranda Lambert, Tyler Childers and more stars will take part in the show.
Click through to see maps that explain how those historic floods happened. Elizabeth Conley/Staff The map shows a satellite-based estimate of rainfall over Texas on April 15-18, 2016.