Kerr County, flood warning
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The county’s largest city, Kerrville, declined to participate in a joint grant application that would have required a $50,000 contribution. Meanwhile in the nearby community of Comfort, a long, flat-three minute warning sound signifying flood danger helped evacuate the town of 2,
As Kerrville continues recovering from the devastating floods that killed more than 100 people in the Texas Hill Country over the July 4 weekend, questions are surfacing about why the city - located along a corridor known as "Flash Flood Alley" - has never installed an outdoor flood siren system.
A small Texas town recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster after it recently upgraded its emergency alert system — the kind of equipment that state and county officials repeatedly balked at installing just a few miles away in storm-ravaged Kerr County.