Texas, New Mexico and flash flood
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The Texas Tribune on MSNTexas lawmakers urge Trump to extend tomato trade agreement with MexicoThe 1996 agreement is set to expire Monday, which could raise the price of Mexican tomatoes and threaten thousands of Texas jobs.
Thousands of responders from multiple states and Mexico spent another day scouring river banks in central Texas in search of flood victims. No new survivors have been found this week and families are coping with enormous losses.
Texas on Saturday faces an upper-atmosphere wave of low pressure that could trigger storms and an increasingly deep flow of Gulf moisture.
One spring, or manantial, is fed by groundwater that flows from a small orifice in the rock to create the larger pool. It is here that researchers found an “extremely tiny” shell on the silted bottom. It’s a new species — and possibly the “world’s smallest freshwater snail.”
How shocking to learn of the tragedy that unfolded on the fourth of July as the Guadalope River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes.
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Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
Mexico has deployed volunteers and civil servants to the Texas Hill Country to assist with recovery and cleanup.
At least 120 people have been found dead since heavy rainfall overwhelmed the river and flowed through homes and youth camps in the early morning hours of July 4. Ninety-six of those killed were in the hardest-hit county in central Texas, Kerr County, where the toll includes at least 36 children.