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After L.A. firestorms and Texas floods, forecasters haunted by warnings not being heard
Two massive disasters this year — the Texas floods and Los Angeles firestorms — are leading some to grapple with the question ...
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After deadly flash floods, a Texas town takes halting, painful steps toward recovery
With an outpouring of volunteers from across Texas, the riverside town of Hunt is grappling with loss and recovery after ...
The Hill Country does have flood warning sirens. Here's where they are and how they work.
Many have decried Kerr County's lack of sirens on the Guadalupe River. Officials in counties that have the systems say they ...
Epicenter of Texas floods hit with dangerous new flash flooding — just 9 days after 129 were killed
Texas was hammered with heavy rain again Sunday, just nine days after catastrophic flash floods left more than 120 people ...
Texas Faces New Flood Warnings Along the Guadalupe River Less Than 2 Weeks After Disaster Killed More Than 130
New flood warnings have been issued along the Guadalupe River in Texas less than two weeks after flooding killed more than ...
How to design an actually good flash flood alert system
Failing to translate flood forecasts into timely messages that tell people what they need to do to stay safe can have tragic ...
Texas officials scrapped ‘Flash Flood Alley’ warning system before 27 killed at Camp Mystic — because it was too expensive
Officials in Kerr County, Texas — where 27 campers and counselors at a Christian summer camp were killed in catastrophic ...
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Millions Of Americans Facing Flash Flood Watches, Dangerous Heat Warnings
On Friday (July 18), millions of Americans are under weather alerts as severe conditions sweep across the country. Seventeen million people are under flood alerts across the Gulf Coast and the ...