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Even when floods can be anticipated, communicating their severity to the public is a tall order. Because flash floods are ...
River gauges, sirens and clear alerts can together help emergency managers anticipate flash floods and communicate ...
Failing to translate flood forecasts into timely messages that tell people what they need to do to stay safe can have tragic ...
More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep ...
Dick Eastland, the Camp Mystic owner who pushed for flood alerts on the Guadalupe River, was killed in last week’s deadly ...
Without a modern flood warning system, emergency officials monitor four sensors along the Guadalupe River – including one that was knocked out in the flood.
Maps show how heavy rainfall and rocky terrain helped create the devastating Texas floods that have killed more than 120 ...
Plans to develop a flood monitoring system in the Texas county hit hardest by deadly floods were scheduled to begin only a ...
A flood warning system was first suggested in 2015 in the wake of deadly floods in Wimberley, Texas, some 75 miles east of Kerrville, the Kerr County seat.
'We are very flood prone': Local Texas officials spent years discussing potential warning system. For nearly a decade, flooding concerns have been raised at public meetings.
A flood warning system deemed too costly by the Texas county where last week’s rains killed at least 27 kiddie campers might have given the victims a fighting chance to get out of harm’s way ...