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Why Flash Flood Warnings Are Never Enough
“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 quickly your life and property can be at risk,” said Rachel Hogan Carr, executive director of the Nurture Nature Center, a nonprofit focused on flood-risk communication.
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After flash floods swept through central Texas in July 2025, people online searched for reasons why the disaster was so ...
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Did fiscal conservatism block plans for a new flood warning system in Kerr County?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.
The search for bodies continued nearly a week after deadly flooding in Texas. With 121 people confirmed dead and at least 161 ...
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 ...
Texas officials have revised the number of people missing in the catastrophic floods in Kerr County, Texas, from 97 ...
More than 2,000 first responders and countless more volunteers continue to search for the missing in Kerr County nearly two ...
The Texas Tribune on MSN8d
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 ...
Kerr County applied for federal grants to build a warning system to protect residents from flash floods. Under the Trump ...
County officials did not issue a locally targeted emergency alert to warn people in town of the rapidly rising waters until ...
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