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Kerr County commissioners hold first meeting since catastrophic Texas flooding
Kerr County commissioners discussed ongoing search and rescue efforts Monday in their first official meeting since ...
Texas officials didn’t see the flood coming. Residents have long warned of risks
In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decadeslong ...
Texans turn off phone alerts more than anyone. Did ‘alert fatigue’ cost lives in Hill County floods?
Texas sent out 282 public safety alerts last year, six times more than in 2017. The state also leads the nation in alert ...
Central Texas hero helps reunite flood survivor siblings amid rising waters; rain worsens flood recovery in Kerr County as search continues
As the water rises, so does the Kerr County community, especially one man who reunited a brother and sister, swept away in ...
Innovative device uses AI to aid divers in murky Guadalupe River amid search-and-recovery efforts
The AquaEye device is currently being used in recovery operations in Kerr County. “It will scan the area of a football field in a minute and pinpoint the location of a victim,” said Loncaric. Loncaric ...
Hundreds of volunteers scouring land along Guadalupe River for victims
Officials say that at least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods when waters of the Guadalupe rose to historic levels in Central Texas.
Plans for Guadalupe River flood monitoring system were scheduled to get underway in mid-July
Plans to develop a flood monitoring system in the Texas county hit hardest by deadly floods were scheduled to begin only a ...
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Texas search for missing flood victims resumes as dry weather finally returns
For the first time since the deadly July Fourth flooding in the Texas Hill Country, Kerr County has no flood advisories or rain in the forecast, allowing search crews to continue their work looking ...