Heavy rains in Texas pause search efforts for flood victims
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The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.
Kerr County issued CodeRed ahead of yesterday's flood threat, urging residents to stay safe during heavy rain possible rising water.
Climate scientists and weather experts are clear: the deadly floods in Texas earlier this month were an entirely natural tragedy, with off-the-charts rainfall levels coming from lingering moisture from a nearby tropical storm feeding off a steamy Gulf of America.
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Rick Johnson heard the toilet bubbling in his Kerr County home at 4 a.m. July 4 and knew he and his wife Susan were in trouble.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told CBS News Monday that the state of Texas could pay for storm sirens along the Guadalupe River.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNKerr County search and rescue operations paused again on Monday due to rainAlthough a new round of floods elsewhere prompted emergency rescues Sunday, no injuries or deaths were reported.
Organizers say a planned candlelight vigil scheduled for this evening in Hunt for victims of the flood has been cancelled due to the threat of more rain in the area. The heaviest rain has now moved southeast along a line from Hondo to San Antonio to Austin.
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
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The Texas Tribune on MSNWeather warnings gave officials a 3 hour, 21 minute window to save lives in Kerr County. What happened then remains unclear.Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they saw the warnings.
The death toll has now climbed to at least 132, making it America's deadliest rainfall-driven flash flood since 1976.