The plan goes over multiple disaster scenarios for the county including flooding. On page 39 the plan states, "The local planning team determined it is likely that Kerr County and the participating jurisdictions will experience a flood event in the next year, meaning an event is probable in the next three years."

The emergency coordinator in Kerr County, Texas, said he was off sick, and asleep when the Guadalupe River overflowed, and the sheriff said he was at a lake house in another county during the crisis.