Texas floods death toll in Kerr County hits 96
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The death toll from the catastrophic Texas floods has risen to at least 82 — with dozens more people missing and the number of those killed only expected to rise as the Lone Star State sifts
Rivers across central Texas, the Concho Valley and Hill County are rising after another night of heavy rain touched off flash floods, just over a week after the area was devastated by a July 4 deluge that killed at least 120 people and left many more missing.
A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.
The threat of heavy rain is “slight” for this weekend, but with the ground fully saturated in Kerr County, even small amounts of rainfall could cause flooding.