Central Texas officials asked the state for flood alarm funding. It never came.

By Staff Reports

July 17, 2025

Over the last decade, state officials repeatedly refused to fund a flood warning system in Central Texas aimed at mitigating natural disasters like the flash flood that killed at least 120 people in Kerr County on July 4.

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