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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 better flood warning system back in 2017, but local officials struggled to get help from the state to pay for it, the Houston Chronicle reported ...
KERR COUNTY, Texas – Kerr County Commissioners held a meeting on Monday morning to discuss several topics, including the implementation of an outdoor flood warning system. Kerr County suffered ...
After years of unsuccessful attempts to finance and build a public alarm network that would warn residents of Kerr County, Texas, about dangerous flooding, officials in the region, nicknamed "flash ...
KERR COUNTY, Texas — Deadly flooding ravaged Wimberley in 2015. That’s when former Kerr County Commissioner Tom Moser realized something had to be done. "I knew that there was that kind of potential ...
Kerr County had discussed buying such things as water gauges and sirens after previous flood disasters. But as with many rural Texas counties, cost was an issue. Search-and-rescue efforts after ...
Trees are bent around the pier of a bridge in Louise Hays Park in Kerrville on July 5, 2025, the day after cataclysmic floodwaters swept through Kerr County. (Brenda Bazán/The Texas Tribune) (The ...
In the months since the deadly Hill Country floods, Kerr County officials have repeatedly said they want a flood warning system — complete with sirens — ready to go by the time kids return to the ...
Texas officials are being questioned about warning systems ahead of the deadly floods. As NBC News' Priscilla Thompson reports, Kerr County doesn't have a county-wide ...
Years before the flooding took more than 90 lives in Kerr County, Texas, local officials knew residents faced threats from rapidly rising water. They started planning a flood warning system, one that ...
Damage along the Francisco Lemos Street Bridge after deadly Hill Country floods on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Copyright 2025 by KSAT - All rights reserved.) KERR ...
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