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Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as the death toll rises to 120, as rescue operations start to shift to recovery phase
Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo.
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.
Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill in the regular legislative session that would have improved local governments’ emergency communications infrastructure.
The Associated Press has assembled an approximate timeline of the 48 hours before, during and after the deadly flash flood, beginning with the activation of the state’s emergency response resources on July 2 — the same day Texas signed off on the camp’s emergency plan for disasters.
It was an emotionally overwhelming July 4th Friday for Gov. Glenn Youngkin as floodwaters roared down the Guadalope River in the Texas hill country – family and friends were vacationing there and while they are safe “I have to say there were moments when they weren’t,