At least one person has died in dangerous overnight flooding that prompted evacuations and damaged homes, schools and roads in the Hill Country. <\/p>\n
Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that officials were working to confirm additional details about the victim.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday, more than 1,300 people helped respond to the floods that hit a wide swath of Texas, Abbott said. More than 70 people have been rescued. <\/p>\n
Abbott said flooding of the Guadalupe River was more severe downstream from Kerrville than upstream, where many summer camps are located. <\/p>\n
“Right now, I am informed that none of those camps are facing any type of danger,” he said at an 11 a.m. press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The area around Comfort, Texas, is experiencing the brunt of the flooding, Abbott said.<\/p>\n
Evacuations have happened, and officials are considering further evacuation orders.<\/p>\n
Flood sirens in the region worked, Abbott said, with the exception of one that was delayed by five or 10 minutes early Thursday morning. <\/p>\n
Abbott said he plans to travel to areas of Texas affected by flooding over the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
“The state is providing all available resources to make sure that [residents] will be taken care of,” he said. “They will be rescued, they will be made safe.”<\/p>\n
Helicopters and drones are scanning the area to assist people who are stranded. <\/p>\n
This is a developing story. <\/p>\n
The Texas Newsroom’s Blaise Gainey contributed to this story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person has died in dangerous overnight flooding that prompted evacuations and damaged homes, schools and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,631,12257,3576,9982,4178,27],"class_list":["post-375740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-death","tag-flood","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-hill-country","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}