{"id":18862,"date":"2018-10-17T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18862"},"modified":"2018-10-17T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:22:46","slug":"raging-floodwaters-in-central-texas-prompt-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18862","title":{"rendered":"Raging floodwaters in central Texas prompt evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"89\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Floodwaters in parts of central Texas prompted evacuations as some areas were hit by more than 300mm on Tuesday. A state of emergency has been declared across 18 counties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Witness videos obtained by Reuters news agency showed heavy rain swelling the San Gabriel River in nearby Georgetown and overflowing into a park. Flooding was also seen upstream in Kingsland, Texas, where a bridge collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least one person has died from the flooding. Local authorities warned residents to evacuate promptly on Tuesday due to strong currents threatening homes and businesses in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile forecasters told residents along the Llano River in central Texas to seek higher ground after more than 250mm of rain fell in only 36 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service warned that the river at Llano, about 105km northwest of Austin, rose to near record levels on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>In 24 hours, the river rose to 12 metres, some 10m higher than the day before, and around 5.5m above major flood stage. The record crest level is 12.6m set in June 1935.<\/p>\n<p>A flash flood warning was put into effect, and forecasters described it as a &#8220;very dangerous situation&#8221;. It is not expected to drop below major flood stage until later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, four people were swept away in floodwaters along the South Llano River in Junction. The bodies of three were recovered and one person remains missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floodwaters in parts of central Texas prompted evacuations as some areas were hit by more than 300mm on Tuesday. A state of emergency has been declared across 18 counties. Witness videos obtained by Reuters news agency showed heavy rain swelling the San Gabriel River in nearby Georgetown and overflowing into a park. Flooding was also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}