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After flash floods swept through central Texas in July 2025, people online searched for reasons why the disaster was so ...
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 night and wake up ...
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 ...
The Texas Legislature is scheduled to convene Monday for a special session, which now includes flood-related issues.
Leaders in Kerr County are facing major questions about a flood warning system that was discussed but never built.
Texas legislators on Wednesday lambasted a local river authority for a decision last year not to move ahead with pursuing a ...
County officials did not issue a locally targeted emergency alert to warn people in town of the rapidly rising waters until ...
At 4:22 a.m. on Friday, as Texas' Hill Country began to flood, a firefighter in Ingram – just upstream from Kerrville – asked the Kerr County Sheriff's Of ...
Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority have tried several times to get funding to upgrade flood alerts on the ...
Kerr County applied for federal grants to build a warning system to protect residents from flash floods. Under the Trump administration, that kind of funding is drying up.
So your reporting found that, nearly a decade before this July 4 flooding, there were local officials in Kerr County pushing to buy a new early flood warning system. Tell us why they were pushing ...