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Flash floods affecting the state of Texas triggered evacuations and rescues this Thursday and left at least one person dead in the same area where more than one hundred people died last year due to the overflowing of the Guadalupe River.
"I have been informed that there was one fatality overnight," Texas Governor Greg Abbott stated at a press conference held in the city of Austin, without specifying the identity.
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The National Weather Service issued a "serious and life-threatening" flood alert early Thursday for more than 45,000 people in the central region of the state of Texas, where devastating torrential rains last July left more than 130 dead, including 25 girls and two counselors at a summer camp.
As the governor detailed, the deceased person was not camping, but no further information is known at this time.
The Texas leader explained that the state has deployed more than 1,300 personnel in emergency operations and that those teams have carried out more than 70 rescues since the flooding began.
"We are working on other potential evacuations in two distinct ways. On one hand, evacuations would be carried out for people trapped in their homes. On the other, there could be evacuations at larger facilities," he continued.
He predicted that the storms could leave rainfall levels much higher than those of last year.
On July 4, 2025, the overflowing of the Guadalupe River in the central region of Texas took summer camps and nearby communities by surprise, sweeping away cabins, vehicles, and equipment in one of the deadliest recent flood episodes in the state.
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