Kerr County Leaders Missed Critical Flood Response Meetings Amid Texas Crisis
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During a devastating flood in Kerr County, Texas, top officials including the sheriff, emergency management director, and county judge were found to be asleep or out of town during the initial hours of the crisis, highlighting a lack of leadership and inadequate warning systems that contributed to the tragedy where over 130 people died.
Topics:top-news#flood-crisis#kerr-county#leadership-failure#local-government#texas-flood#warning-system
- Kerr County’s top leaders were asleep, out of town during initial hours of Texas flood crisis PBS
- County Emergency Official Says He Was Ill and Sleeping as Texas Floods Hit The New York Times
- 'The state is broken': Kerrville residents testify at state hearing over flood response KUT
- Local officials in the epicenter of Texas floods missed state emergency planning briefing CNN
- Experts say Texas is ignoring root cause of deadly July floods: unregulated development Austin American-Statesman
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