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CNN on MSN · 3h

Local Texas officials criticized for missing emergency planning briefing as grieving residents call for improved alert system

All key leading officials from the Texas county hardest hit by the July 4 flash flooding that killed at least 136 people, were absent from an emergency briefing call ahead of the flash flooding incident,

The Wall Street Journal on MSN · 7h

Texas Lawmakers Criticize Local Officials Over Deadly Hill Country Floods

Texas state lawmakers from both parties criticized local authorities in Kerr County for being unprepared for the devastating July Fourth flooding that left more than 135 people dead in their region.

Bloomberg L.P. · 9h

Texas Local Officials Grilled Over Response to Deadly Floods

Texas lawmakers and the lieutenant governor pressed local officials to explain their handling of the catastrophic July 4 weekend floods that killed more than 160 people — including 37 children — across the state’s Hill Country,

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County Emergency Official Says He Was Ill and Sleeping as Texas Floods Hit

At a hearing in hard-hit Kerr County, an emergency management coordinator for the first time explained his whereabouts when ...

6hon MSN

Texas Emergency Official Speaks Out amid Questions About His Whereabouts as Deadly Floods Hit

William B. Thomas IV, the Kerr County Emergency Management Coordinator, made his first public comments about the flooding ...

6hon MSN

Texas county emergency management official says he was asleep during deadly flood

For the first time since catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, Texas, the county emergency ...

The Texas Tribune on MSN2h

Kerr County officials failed to follow certain aspects of disaster plan during Texas floods

The five-year-old plan, required by the state, detailed when additional monitoring was to take place and who was responsible ...

6hon MSN

Emergency official says he was sick and asleep when deadly floods hit

Kerr County's emergency manager testified at a hearing Thursday that he was sick and asleep when the deadly flash floods hit ...

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Experts say Texas is ignoring root cause of deadly July floods: unregulated development

Our analysis of FEMA flood maps in the Austin area show many homes devastated by July floods were in high-risk areas. Experts ...

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A rural Texas county was missing some of its key leadership in the initial hours of flood crisis

Texas lawmakers began questioning local Kerr County officials over their preparedness and response to the deadly July 4 ...

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‘Not a Damned Penny.’ Texas Flood Survivors Look for Help

Texas state legislators will be in Kerrville on Thursday for a hearing on the July 4 floods. They may get an earful.

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After Central Texas floods, Austin urges FEMA to restore grant for stalled levee project

Austin officials are calling on FEMA to reinstate $50 million in flood resilience funding pulled by the Trump administration ...

Click2Houston1d

FEMA announces billion-dollar funding to boost state disaster readiness and security; here’s how it works

States will be empowered and responsible for managing disaster response and protecting their communities,” said Senior ...

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