The reporter said that several families were angry because they felt that alerts for the flood did not go out in time.

In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.

A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.

Even though there are still dozens of people missing, and endless mounds of mangled vegetation and vehicles, it is not too soon to ask what went wrong

KOCO 5 Meteorologist Sabrina Bates breaks down what to know when it comes to flooding. What does it take for officials to issue a flood watch or warning?

The deadly Texas floods have brought the state's approach to land approvals, especially in flood-prone areas, under more scrutiny.

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.