Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said more than 2,500 responders have been dispatched across the state, from departments including FEMA, parks and wildlife, health services and transportation.
It will be weeks until the full extent of damage is known and months until cleanup is complete in Cook and other parts of the state affected by high water. Residents are now in recovery mode and trying to get ahead of possible health effects from soaked structures.
It's not that records are being broken monthly but they are being "shattered by very substantial margins over the past 13 months," a climate scientist said.
We’ll continue to have isolated to spotty, pop-up showers and thunder both Monday and Tuesday afternoons. The rest of the week is mostly dry and becoming warmer.
The heat wave in the U.S. is far from over. Parts of both coasts are bearing the brunt of the heat with record-breaking temperatures. The heat will continue its grip over the next few days.
Rapidan Dam’s partial failure sent an estimated 11.6 million cubic yards of sediment downstream. Experts are worried about its ecological impacts and say it could take years to fully understand them.
The next few days won’t be a washout but there will be spotty showers and thunder Friday and Saturday mostly. Next week looks drier and warmer overall.
For decades, public housing providers could subsidize heating bills but not air-conditioning. New Biden administration guidance changes that, but critics say it doesn’t go far enough.