Kerrville, Flash flood and Texas
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The Texas Tribune on MSNKerrville mayor says he wasn’t aware of state resources that Gov. Abbott said were in place ahead of floodingThe governor said Tuesday that the state had “assets, resources and personnel” in place before the July 4 floods.
Texas officials face questions over who monitored weather and warned of floodwaters heading toward camps and homes.
Michael Abner said he was awakened at 5 a.m. on the Fourth of July by the owner of an RV park in Kerrville, Texas, where he was staying as floodwater began reaching his RV.
For those who lost their eyewear due to the flooding, two locations are offering assistance to simplify the replacement process.
Robert Earl Keen has a personal connection to Kerrville, TX, the site of massive flooding on July 4 that authorities say resulted in the deaths of 111 people, with nearly 170 still unaccounted for at press time.
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Several Kerrville Independent School District teachers and staff members drove school buses full of hundreds of campers from Camp La Junta and Camp Mystic to reunification sites on July 4.
Kerrville resident Jeremy Kerth discusses the destruction in the aftermath of the flooding in Texas and asks for help and prayers for the county on 'America Reports.'
The Buffalo News, a New York newspaper, has sparked fury online after a political cartoon appeared to mock victims of the flash floods in Texas. The cartoon depicted a drowning Trump supporter wearing a Make America Great Again cap. Newsweek has contacted The Buffalo News for comment via email.
Volunteers from Alice traveled to Kerrville to prepare meals for first responders and flood victims, while medical teams from Corpus Christi provided care to those injured during rescue efforts.
In an emotional interview with CNN’s Pamela Brown, the mayor of Kerrville, Texas, said he did not receive a warning about the torrential rainfall that would result in catastrophic flooding in his city.
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in Kerr County on the Fourth of July.