Kerr County, flood warning
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Former Kerr County Commissioner Tom Moser said in 2016 their flood warning system was "marginal at best." Still, the county couldn't get grants for sirens.
At 4:22 a.m. on Friday, as Texas' Hill Country began to flood, a firefighter in Ingram – just upstream from Kerrville – asked the Kerr County Sheriff's Of
For years, Kerr County officials debated how to fund a flood warning system. Under Trump Administration changes, disaster funding opportunities are getting more limited for communities.
Moser said Kerr County started discussing a better flood warning system soon after devastating flooding hit Wimberley, another town in the Texas Hill Country about 80 miles east of Kerrville, in 2015.