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Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding
Kerr County failed to secure a warning system, even as local officials remained aware of the risks and as billions of dollars ...
'We are very flood prone': Local Texas officials spent years discussing potential warning system
Flooding has been at the top of Texans’ minds this week, but this is not the first time that the need for flood-related ...
How the catastrophic Texas flooding unfolded, in maps and charts
The search for missing bodies is ongoing along Texas’ Guadalupe River after catastrophic and deadly flooding killed more than ...
Deadly Texas floods raise questions about emergency alerts and whether staffing cuts affected forecasts and warnings
The first weather emergency alert sent by the National Weather Service with urgent language instructing people to "seek ...
Kerr County authorities discussed warning systems at least 20 times since 1987
Since 2016, the topic of a "flood warning system" for Kerr County has come up at 20 different county commissioners' meetings, ...
What early warnings did flood-hit Texas receive?
At a news conference on Sunday, Governor Greg Abbott said people in Texas were used to flash flood warnings, but there was no ...
Officials say nothing could have prepared them for the Guadalupe River to rise so fast. Meteorologists disagree.
Hundreds of children at summer campsites along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County were at risk early Friday when a ...