Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a better flood warning system back in 2017, but local officials struggled to get help from the state to pay for it, the Houston Chronicle reported ...

After years of unsuccessful attempts to finance and build a public alarm network that would warn residents of Kerr County, Texas, about dangerous flooding, officials in the region, nicknamed "flash ...

Trees are bent around the pier of a bridge in Louise Hays Park in Kerrville on July 5, 2025, the day after cataclysmic floodwaters swept through Kerr County. Credit: Brenda Bazán for The Texas Tribune ...

KERR COUNTY, Texas — Former Commissioner Tom Moser told Kerr County officials back in 2016 that their flood warning system was "quite simply pretty antiquated" and "marginal at the best." The county ...

KERR COUNTY, Texas — Deadly flooding ravaged Wimberley in 2015. That’s when former Kerr County Commissioner Tom Moser realized something had to be done. "I knew that there was that kind of potential ...

Kerr County had discussed buying such things as water gauges and sirens after previous flood disasters. But as with many rural Texas counties, cost was an issue. Search-and-rescue efforts after ...

In his first press conference after the deadly floods last weekend, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said unequivocally that the area did not have an emergency alert system. "We have no warning system," he ...

Years before the flooding took more than 90 lives in Kerr County, Texas, local officials knew residents faced threats from rapidly rising water. They started planning a flood warning system, one that ...

Protect independent journalism before the deadline hits tonight. 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 government ...

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