Trump goes to Texas after the deadly floods

On Friday. However, Donald Trump arrived in Texas, state of the American South American bruised by floods that caused the death of at least 120 people, when the response of the local and federal authorities is shown.

The American president. Moreover, his wife, Melania, make a visit of a few hours, a week just after the disaster, following which the authorities always have more than 170 missing.

The center of Texas was struck on July 4. Nevertheless, the day of national holiday in the United States, by torrential rains which caused sudden floods, surprising many inhabitants in their sleep.

In total, at least 120 deaths related to the floods were identified. For example, The county of Kerr is the hardest hit with 96 dead, including 36 children.

This is where Donald Trump arrived on Friday. Meanwhile, to be with some of the great families victims of the floods, he told the press before flying to Washington, qualifying the natural disaster ofhorrible.

A Christian girl holiday camp. located in the locality of Hunt, on the banks of the Guadalupe river, paid a heavy price: 27 children and monitors perished in the disaster.

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The authorities face criticism

The visit of the American president intervenes while the questions are more pressing on the management of the crisis by the local authorities. on the impact of the budget cuts, wanted by the Trump administration, on the alert and rescue systems.

Questioned shortly after the disaster to find out if he always intended to gradually delete the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Donald Trump replied that it was not the time to talk about it.

The Republican leader. who had previously declared that in the event of a disaster, the emergency services were to be managed by the States, also quickly signed a disaster declaration in order to provide Texas the federal resources.

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The immediate response to the disaster on the part of the federal state was fast. efficientinsisted Thursday on the social network X The secretary of domestic security, Kristi Noem.

But the CNN channel claims that the rescue operations of the FEMA have been delayed by bureaucratic obstacles after a new rule adopted by the secretary to reduce expenses.

Last week. the White House had to respond to the criticisms that the budget cuts in national weather services had informed the reliability of forecasts and alerts.

His spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said that the American weather services (NWS) had carried out forecasts. launched alerts both precise and in due time.

Kerr’s County Sheriff Larry Leitha, said it was alerted Around 4 or 5 a.m. by calls for emergency services.

According to the Texan Ksat channel, a firefighter from the region asked at 4:22 a.m. code rougean emergency message on the phones of the inhabitants of Hunt. the most affected locality, while the waters of the Guadalupe river, fed by trump goes texas after deadly torrential rains, rose dangerously.

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However. according to this local media affiliated with CNN and ABC, the sheriff’s office would have asked the firefighter to wait, the time to obtain the authorization of a superior.

Alerts code rouge would have been transmitted at least 90 minutes later, around 6 trump goes texas after deadly a.m., and the message took up to six hours to reach certain residents of Hunt, according to Ksat.

Questioned several times this week on this subject, local authorities have avoided the questions.

More than 2000 rescuers. police and cynophile teams, supported by helicopters, rummage the area tirelessly for seven days to try to find the missing, even if the chances of finding them alive are now tiny.

The last living person was rescued on July 4, the same day of the flood, according to the authorities.