The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that this tragedy reflects the challenges of additional rainfall in a short time, converting timely warnings and ensuring community preparation.
Suddenly the flood is considered extremely dangerous, which is responsible for more than five thousand deaths every year.
According to the United Nations Agency, the surprise floods are responsible for 85 percent of death due to flood causes around the world. Because of this, financial loss is also $ 50 billion every year.
The weather organization says that there is very little time to avoid sudden floods due to floods in the rivers.
“This is why predictions and community preparations are very important in a short time” “
Rain a few hours of months
On the night of July 4-7, the Taxus province was rained in the car county. Due to 18 inches of rain in a few hours, the water level in the Gwadalupa River basin increased rapidly. When it happened at four in the morning, most of the residents and people who arrived were sleeping to celebrate the holidays.
The US National Meteorological Department had issued a warning on time and an emergency for the surprised floods about three hours ago was also announced.
Taxes’ car county recorded 46 cm of rain in a few hours.
These alerts were broadcast through the weather radio, emergency management, TV and radio, but hundreds of children were in the fields of ‘summer camps’ and this information could not be reached in their time.
It is reported that the flow of the Gwadalupa river has increased by 26 feet in just 45 minutes, which causes a huge waste of life and property.
In the summer, camp for children, Camp Mistach ‘was most affected by the disaster, where at least 2 27 people, including children, were reported to have died. According to the administration of the taxus province, 160 people are still missing.
Surprise floods, big disasters
Surprising floods are not a new phenomenon, but their frequency and intensity is increasing, which has been reported to have rapid urbanization, land use and warm climate change.
Earlier, in 2021, floods were damaged in Europe, Middle East and African countries. At the same time, in 2022, the surprised floods in Pakistan were killed and millions of people were displaced.
And this week itself, the two countries were washed away due to sudden floods on the Nepal-China border.
With the intention of dealing with these risks, the system is operated by WMO to prevent surprising floods in more -time observations and forecasts in more than 70 countries.
In these efforts, integrating analysis of satellite data, radar, weather -related models detected the threat of amazing floods and providing assistance in the training program to develop the national level.