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Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system, including failing to secure roughly $1 million US for a project to better protect Kerr County’s 50,
As of 6:25 p.m. on Wednesday, 96 people — 60 adults and 36 children — are dead after Hill Country flooding, Kerr County officials said.
As of the end of the day Tuesday, there were still five Camp Mystic campers and one counselor unaccounted for, with identification pending for 19 adults and seven children. Another child not associated with the camp is also missing.
Since 2016, the topic of a "flood warning system" for Kerr County has come up at 20 different county commissioners' meetings, according to minutes. The idea for a system was first introduced by Kerr County Commissioner Thomas Moser and Emergency Management Coordinator Dub Thomas in March 2016.
"I hope that everyone knows, prayers work and God is still out there," Kerrville resident Donna Ragsdale said.
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John David Trolinger, a former Kerry County, Texas, IT director and registered pilot, was part of the team that installed Code-Red at the county level more than a decade ago. It sends recorded messages and texts to warn people about life threatening emergencies,
84 dead, including 28 children, in Kerr County floods; 6 found dead in Kendall County, officials say
At least 84 people, including 28 children, were killed in Kerr County, and another six were found dead in Kendall County due to flooding, officials said Monday.
If you have a missing person, email [email protected] with the name and description of the missing person. You can also provide photos to aid in identification. The reunification center for those waiting on word about missing persons is at Calvary Temple Church, 3000 Loop 534.
As the search and recovery continues in Kerry County, the issue of emergency sirens have become a focus both locally and across teas.
Several hundred people gathered for a worship ceremony at a high school stadium in Texas on Wednesday evening to remember the at least 120 people who died in the catastrophic flash floods over the
KERR COUNTY, Texas — Authorities say the death toll from the July Fourth floods in the Texas Hill Country has climbed once more, this time to 84 bodies recovered, 28 of whom are children.