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Hearing on deadly Texas floods reveals local officials missed emergency planning briefing

All key leading officials from the Texas county hardest hit by the July 4 flash flooding that killed at least 136 people, were absent from an emergency briefing call ahead of the flash flooding incident,

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Kerr County officials failed to follow certain aspects of disaster plan during Texas floods

The five-year-old plan, required by the state, detailed when additional monitoring was to take place and who was responsible for alerting the public to evacuate.

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Texas lawmakers grill officials over response during deadly floods

Texas state lawmakers held a special legislative session in Kerrville on Thursday (July 31), examining local officials' response to catastrophic flash flooding that killed over 130 people in the Hill Country earlier that month.

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Search for answers after Texas’ deadly floods brings lawmakers to devastated Hill Country

Texas lawmakers searched for answers during a hearing on the deadly July 4 floods that overwhelmed Kerr County in a matter of ...

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Kerr County emergency officials were missing, asleep as floods raged

The hearing this morning is the first time a panel of lawmakers is visiting the hard-hit Texas Hill Country since the floods.

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‘Nobody came for us’: Lawmakers hear testimony in Kerrville following floods

To those who ask, ‘What would you have done differently?’ The honest answer is that based on the data we had at the time, there was no clear indicator that a catastrophic flood was imminent,” William ...

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