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Texas town right next door to flood-ravaged county added new alert sirens last year — and nobody perished in July 4 storms
A small Texas town that recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster had recently upgraded its emergency alert system ...
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Texas Official Shot Down Siren Flood Alert, Complaining That It Might Go Off 'In the Middle of the Night': Report
As historic flash floods swept through Kerr County over July 4 weekend, killing more than 100 people and leaving families ...
San Francisco Examiner1d
Longtime SF tsunami-siren proponents say Texas floods ‘teachable moment’
Texas leaders have faced a torrent of criticism ever since flash floods from the Guadalupe River on Independence Day ...
Some former Texas county officials thought informal phone calls, not sirens, would be sufficient in a flood
Texas county commissioners previously suggested "river calling," an informal phone chain used by summer camps, would be ...
KUT1d
Kerr County doesn't have outdoor warning sirens. San Marcos just fixed the city's this year.
The 50-foot poles along the San Marcos River have sirens for severe weather, wildfires and tornadoes — and they were put to ...
A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn't find $1M for flood warning system near camps
Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended ...
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick calls for sirens along Guadalupe River in wake of flash floods
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick signaled that he plans to push for the state to pay for sirens erected alongside the Guadalupe River in ...
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Texas mayor hurls state's GOP officials under the bus over denied sirens
Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. told MSNBC that he's grieving after his town was hit with feet of rain in a short period. But ...