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Texas officials deflect mounting questions about response to deadly flood
Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on Wednesday again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done more to warn people ahead of devastating flash flooding that killed at least 119 people on July 4.
While Kerr County officials say they didn’t know how bad the July 4 flooding would be, it warned residents nearly eight years ...
At a Wednesday morning press conference, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha declined to answer a question about delayed ...
Days after flash floods killed over 100 people during the July Fourth weekend, search-and-rescue teams are using heavy ...
Plans to develop a flood monitoring system in the Texas county hit hardest by deadly floods were scheduled to begin only a ...
Using Fredericksburg as a proxy for the region, the average July rainfall over the last about 40 years is 2.2 inches. But ...
Dispatch audio has surfaced from the critical hours before a deadly flood hit its height in Kerr County, helping piece ...
Since 2016, the topic of a "flood warning system" for Kerr County has come up at 20 different county commissioners' meetings, ...
Over 35,000 signed a petition urging Kerr County to install flood warning sirens after flash flooding killed at least 100 ...
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told CBS News Monday that the state of Texas could pay for storm sirens along the Guadalupe River.
Kerr County repeatedly failed to secure a warning system, even as local officials remained aware of the risks and as billions ...
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Weather warnings gave officials a 3 hour, 21 minute window to save lives in Kerr County. What happened then remains unclear.Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they saw the warnings or whether they saw them in time to take action.
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