Kerr County, Texas and Houston-area
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An expert highlights a "point of failure" in Kerr County's emergency alerts during the flood. HOUSTON — Disaster and risk communications scholar Jeannette Sutton created The Warn Room to help first responder agencies improve emergency warnings and alerts one message at a time.
The catastrophic flooding in Central Texas has left more than 100 people dead, including Houston-area residents.
As the search and recovery continues in Kerry County, the issue of emergency sirens have become a focus both locally and across teas.
It has been four days since catastrophic floodwaters swept through the Texas Hill Country, leaving more than 100 people dead and destroying homes and businesses across multiple counties.
The way Central Texans rushed to each other's aid over the Fourth of July weekend conjured memories of Hurricane Harvey for Donnie Mosher, a Houston man who had traveled to Kerr County to look for a home.
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The pediatrician allegedly wrote "Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for."
Dr. Christina Propst, a Houston pediatrician, was fired after recent comments over the deadly Texas Hill Country floods.
As heartbreaking floodwaters swept through Kerr County and surrounding parts of Central Texas over the weekend, Trae Tha Truth and his Relief Gang team did what they always feel called to do: show up with open hearts,