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Kerr County had discussed buying such things as water gauges and sirens
after previous flood disasters. But as with many rural Texas counties,
cost was an issue.

By Jesus Jiménez, Margarita Birnbaum, Danny Hakim and Mike Baker

Published July 6, 2025 | Updated July 7, 2025, 10:37 a.m. ET

Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the
Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed
to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe
River.

A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with
children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned
those downriver of the water surge coming their way.

But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools.
“We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is
not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time.

In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged
through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some
residents and were dismissed or unseen by others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html

Officials in red shithole states *always* do the wrong thing.

Those families would pay anything now to have
their kids back...

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Gronk wrote:

A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with
children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a
word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp
leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way.

But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system
with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications
tools. “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we
don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this
whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County
commissioner at the time.

In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged
through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding
monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some
residents and were dismissed or unseen by others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html

Officials in red shithole states *always* do the wrong thing.

Those families would pay anything now to have
their kids back...

Why cannot the county get a grant from the state?

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