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“If you’ve never seen water rise in front of you in minutes, it’s hard to conceive of how quickly that can happen—and how ...
The Texas Legislature is scheduled to convene Monday for a special session, which now includes flood-related issues.
Less than 5% of homes in the county's FEMA floodplain had flood coverage, well below the national average. Uptake was even ...
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 ...
Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...
A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with ...
County officials did not issue a locally targeted emergency alert to warn people in town of the rapidly rising waters until two days after the deadly flood, according to Federal Emergency ...
The search for bodies continued nearly a week after deadly flooding in Texas. With 121 people confirmed dead and at least 161 ...
Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they ...
Since 2016, the topic of a "flood warning system" for Kerr County has come up at 20 different county commissioners' meetings, according to minutes. The idea for a system was first introduced by Kerr ...
An expert highlights a "point of failure" in Kerr County's emergency alerts during the flood. HOUSTON — Disaster and risk ...
Kerr County applied for federal grants to build a warning system to protect residents from flash floods. Under the Trump ...