More than 30,000 peopleare expected to be placed in temporary shelters in the US state of Texas due to widespread flooding caused byTropical Storm Harvey, US officials said, with more rain expected in the coming days.
Brock Long, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Monday that 50 counties in Texas are affected by the floods, which were brought about by an estimated six months-worth of rain falling in the last three days alone.
"We have not seen an event like this.
You could not draw this forecast up, you could not dream this forecast up," Long said.
Earlier, Texas Governor Greg Abbott deployed anadditional 1,000 NationalGuard troops, on top of the 3,000 already sent in the flood-stricken state, which is the size of France, Belgium and Switzerland combined.
Texas officials said Monday that six more people are feared to have died in the Houstonarea as a result of the storm and flooding.
Al Jazeera's weather presenter Richard Angwin reported that the"worst is probably yet to come", saying that the storm, which is moving only at an estimated five kilometres per hour, could dump more rain in the coming days."We are only half-way through the rainfall," he said.
"The storm is going nowhere very fast.
It is going so slowly. There's still a lot still coming out of it, picking up warm water in the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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