Texas Flooding Death Toll Climbs
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The reporter said that several families were angry because they felt that alerts for the flood did not go out in time.
The threat of heavy rain is “slight” for this weekend, but with the ground fully saturated in Kerr County even small amounts of rainfall could cause flooding.
At least 118 people are dead after heavy rain led to devastating flooding in Texas. Kerr County was hit the hardest, with at least 95 deaths, including 36 children. President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration for the county and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is on the ground there.
FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the flooding began on July 4.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on Friday toured areas devastated by flash flooding in central Texas that has killed more than 100, including at least 36 children, on the Fourth of July.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania will visit Kerrville on Friday, one week after Central Texas floods killed over 100 people.
The president has defended his administration's response to the fatal flooding amid criticism that federal assistance could have been provided more quickly.
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 overspending.
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Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.
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