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 ...

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 ...

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In the wake of the deadly flash floods in Texas, state leaders are exploring whether to install more flood warning sirens.

A member of the public looks out at flooding caused by a flash flood at the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on July 5, 2025. As historic flash floods swept through Kerr County over July 4 weekend ...

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 ...

Following this weekend’s devastating Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, and left at least two dozen still missing ...

Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended ...

Officials in a Texas town where nobody died amid the state's devastating flooding last week are crediting an updated siren ...

Texas Hill Country was unprepared for the July 4 nightmare flash floods that killed at least 120 people, with 173 still ...