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Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the ...
Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...
While sirens can help in areas with shaky cell service, experts say officials also need to consider alert fatigue and provide ...
In the wake of the deadly flash floods in Texas, state leaders are exploring whether to install more flood warning sirens.
FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the ...
While Kerr County officials say they didn’t know how bad the July 4 flooding would be, it warned residents nearly eight years ago to “be flood aware” about the ongoing potential ...
Following this weekend’s devastating Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, and left at least two dozen still missing ...
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 ...
As historic flash floods swept through Kerr County over July 4 weekend, killing more than 100 people and leaving families ...
Kerr County officials have for years talked about the need for a more robust flash-flood warning system, including sirens that would reach people in places with no cell service. But in the absence of ...
The 50-foot poles along the San Marcos River have sirens for severe weather, wildfires and tornadoes — and they were put to ...
New audio reveals what Kerr County first responders were hearing and acting on during the critical first few hours of the ...