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Warnings predicted both Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
People awoke from water rushing around them during the early morning hours of July 4, all along the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country. Residents were seemingly caught off guard, but warnings had been issued days and hours before floodwaters began carrying away homes,
Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.
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Daily Mail on MSNTrump lashes out at 'evil' reporter on Texas warning system questionDonald Trump lashed out at an 'evil' CBS Texas reporter over a question on whether Texas' early warning weather systems could have operated better when the state was hit by devastating flash floods recently.
When a reporter asked the United States president whether the warning alert system for recent devastating floods worked as well as it could have, Donald Trump lashed out.
Center Point, Texas, RV park owner David Chambers said he was stunned not to have had a better warning as floodwaters rose.
More than 170 people are still believed to be missing a week after the forceful floodwater hit over the July Fourth weekend.
Texas officials are being questioned about warning systems ahead of the deadly floods. As NBC News' Priscilla Thompson reports, Kerr County doesn't have a county-wide siren warning system in place.