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Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...
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 Kerr County Commissioners Court discussed installing early warning sirens as early as 2015, after a deadly flood on ...
Former Kerr County Commissioner Tom Moser said in 2016 their flood warning system was "marginal at best." Still, the county ...
Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority have tried several times to get funding to upgrade flood alerts on the ...
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 ...
Leaders in Kerr County are facing major questions about a flood warning system that was discussed but never built.
Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the ...
Residents say Kerr County’s use of CodeRED alerts was sporadic and inconsistent. Local officials have not answered questions ...
As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy – both in the decades ...
Survivors have described the floods along the Guadalupe River as a “pitch black wall of death” and said they received no ...
In 2021, Kerr County incorporated FEMA's Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) into CodeRED, so that messages could reach tourists and others not in the local database. The IPAWS system ...