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Contextualizing claim Texas county rejected $10M from Biden admin to improve flood warning systems

Social media posts claim Kerr County, an area hit hard by devastating flash floods, rejected the money from the Biden ...

Texas lawmakers blast river authority for 'pathetic decision' not to upgrade flood warning system

They cited a Houston Chronicle investigation that found UGRA declined to fund the improvements despite having millions of ...
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Texas lawmakers slam local decision to cut taxes instead of funding flood alerts

The Upper Guadalupe River Authority tapped its $3.4 million surplus to lower property tax rates, rather than fund $1 million ...

Missed warnings, delayed action: Texas lawmakers confront flood response failures

More than 130 Texans lost their lives in the catastrophic July Fourth floods, and for the first time, state lawmakers ...

Texas flood survivors, senators push for bill to address severe weather warnings

A group of Central Texas flood survivors, senators and community leaders will rally at the Texas State Capitol on Monday to ...

Texas Faces New Flood Warnings Along the Guadalupe River Less Than 2 Weeks After Disaster Killed More Than 130

New flood warnings have been issued along the Guadalupe River in Texas less than two weeks after flooding killed more than ...

Timeline raises questions over how Texas officials handled warnings before the deadly July 4 flood

Officials in Texas are facing mounting questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm’s way before a flash flood swept down the Guadalupe River and killed more than 100 people, ...

'Science just isn't there yet' to predict severity of storms that caused deadly Texas flooding, meteorologist says

The severity of the flash flooding that killed more than 130 people in Texas's Hill Country was difficult to predict, ...