Texas, floods and warnings
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Some Texas flood alerts were delayed
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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
It is hard to look at the heartbreak of the disaster in Texas. In Colorado past flash floods have brought similar heartache and similar threats.
The reporter said that several families were angry because they felt that alerts for the flood did not go out in time.
More than 170 people are still believed to be missing a week after the forceful floodwater hit over the July Fourth weekend.
The deadly Texas floods have brought the state's approach to land approvals, especially in flood-prone areas, under more scrutiny.
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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.