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  1. A formal list of persons lost in the July 4th flood in Kerr County has been released by the Texas Rangers. The list contains the names and ages of 117 people who died and two who remain missing. Many of the victims were from the Houston area.

    houstonpublicmedia.org/article

    #Flooding #Houston #Local #News #Texas #GuadalupeRiverFlood #July4Floods #KerrCounty #TexasRangers #TopStories #Tpr

  2. Texas officials say flood victim recovery could last months

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    #NewsBeep #News #Topstories #environment #Headlines #KerrCounty #Kerrville #stategovernment #texasgovernment #texasnews #texaspolicy #texaspolitics
    newsbeep.com/3237/

  3. New floods lead to rescues and evacuations across Texas

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    #NewsBeep #News #Topstories #environment #Headlines #KerrCounty #Kerrville #texasgovernment #TexasHillCountry #texasnews #texaspolicy #texaspolitics
    newsbeep.com/2742/

  4. I remember the river
    how it felt like a silent companion and always gentle guide
    how it felt timeless, ever present and patiently waiting for our return

    I remember singing “Peace, I ask of thee oh river, peace, peace, peace”
    texasobserver.org/poem-guadalu

    #poetry #poems #water #Texas #CentralTexas #KerrCounty #Kerrville #environment #TexasFlood

  5. #KerrCounty #Texas #Floodings > Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.

    apnews.com/article/texas-flood

  6. @KimPerales "#KerrCounty Sheriff Larry Leitha said sending out warnings isn’t “as easy as pushing a button.” Answers about who did what when will come later. Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, county’s chief elected official, said in hrs after devastation that county does not have a #warningsystem. Generations of families in the Hill Country have known the #dangers. 1987 flood forced the #evacuation of a youth camp in town of Comfort, swamped buses and vans. 10 teens killed. #negligence #climatecrisis

  7. #KerrCounty #TexAss... did they not listen to #TheNationalWeatherService (#NWS) warnings? Ohhhhhhh, that's right, nobody works there anymore because.. well.. #TACO #Shitler's #Oligarch buddies don't wanna pay their tax-y-waxx-y
    Fought n' prehers #MAGAts

  8. “the numbers from the #guadalupe #flooding are insane. 11.4” of rain on #july4th, an estimated 100 billion gallons of #rain fell in #kerrcounty. which is about what goes over niagara falls in a day.

    43 confirmed dead with 27 still missing.”
    #weather #extremeweather #wx

    bsky.app/profile/ziibiing.com/

  9. #Texas #flooding / #FlashFloodEmergency #KerrCounty #Kerrville

    Death toll: 52, including 15 children:
    Kerr County 43 (15 kids)
    Travis County 4
    Burnet County 3
    Kendall county 1
    Tom Green County 1

    Injured: xx
    Missing: 37, including 27 children
    Rescued: 876

    City of Kerrville's OEM missing children emergency line: 830-258-1111
    (Other) missing people: 830-257-818

    📸 AP

  10. #Texas #flooding / #FlashFloodEmergency #KerrCounty #Kerrville

    Death toll: 32, including 14 children
    Injured: xx
    Missing: 29, including 27 children
    Rescued: 850

    City of Kerrville's OEM missing children emergency line: 830-258-1111
    (Other) missing people: 830-257-8181

    📸 Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP - A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, on Saturday, July 5.