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Contextualizing claim Texas county rejected $10M from Biden admin to improve flood warning systems
Social media posts claim Kerr County, an area hit hard by devastating flash floods, rejected the money from the Biden ...
Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, ...
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 ...
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The Texas Tribune on MSNDid 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 ...
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Kerr County asked for a flood warning system and didn’t get it. Would it have made a difference?
Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...
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Texas flood: Kickoff meeting for Kerr County warning system project had been planned for mid-July
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 ...
An expert highlights a "point of failure" in Kerr County's emergency alerts during the flood. HOUSTON — Disaster and risk ...
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The Texas Tribune on MSNWeather 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 ...
The threat of heavy rain is “slight” for this weekend, but with the ground fully saturated in Kerr County, even small amounts ...
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