Three hours and 21 minutes. That’s how much time passed from when the National Weather Service sent out its first flash flood warning for part of Kerr County to when the first flooding reports came in from low-lying water crossings.

Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the night and wake up

People awoke from water rushing around them during the early morning hours of July 4, all along the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country. Residents were seemingly caught off guard, but warnings had been issued days and hours before floodwaters began carrying away homes,

Warnings predicted both Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.

New audio reveals what Kerr County first responders were hearing and acting on during the critical first few hours of the devastating floods. | Click to listen

A small Texas town that recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster had recently upgraded its emergency alert system — the kind of setup state, county and federal officials

Even after Texas received and allocated billions of dollars for broadband, much of Kerr County still has limited to no cell phone reception.

Flash floods last week in Texas caused the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically, reaching three stories high in just two hours