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Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...
Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the ...
FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the ...
Kerr County officials rejected federal aid in 2021 that could have funded flood sirens, citing political objections.
Three hours and 21 minutes. That’s how much time passed from when the National Weather Service sent out its first flash flood warning for part of Kerr County to when the first flooding reports came ...
Historic Texas flood leaves 161 missing and 96 dead. Rescuers battle harsh conditions, as communities grapple with heartache ...
People awoke from water rushing around them during the early morning hours of July 4, all along the Guadalupe River in the ...
In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to ...
Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended ...
Dispatch audio has surfaced from the critical hours before a deadly flood hit its height in Kerr County, helping piece ...
Warnings predicted both Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
While Kerr County officials say they didn’t know how bad the July 4 flooding would be, it warned residents nearly eight years ago to “be flood aware” about the ongoing potential ...