Texas, Kerr County and floods
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Texas Hill Country nonprofit raises $60M for flood relief
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Social media posts claim Kerr County, an area hit hard by devastating flash floods, rejected the money from the Biden administration.
The Upper Guadalupe River Authority had a $3 million reserve, but cut taxes rather than replacing an outdated flood alert system before the July 4 Hill Country flood.
Seventeen-year-old Charlotte March wrote a song about her love for summer camp, then turned it into a fundraiser for families devastated by the Hill Country floods.
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Search efforts in Kerr County have reduced the missing count to two after July Fourth floods, with one young girl and an adult man still unaccounted for.
Kerr County officials now estimate that flood damage from the recent Central Texas disaster could exceed $200 million—and to help cover mounting recovery costs, they may raise property taxes for the first time in years.
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Grist on MSNKerr County’s tragic flood wasn’t an outlier. It was a preview.Mounting evidence shows no state is safe from the flooding that ravaged the Texas Hill Country. Your community could be next.
Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, experts said.