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In the wake of the deadly flash floods in Texas, state leaders are exploring whether to install more flood warning sirens.
While sirens can help in areas with shaky cell service, experts say officials also need to consider alert fatigue and provide ...
Texas lawmakers should fund modern emergency sirens, improve phone alerts, bolster flood data collection, strengthen land-use ...
Following this weekend’s devastating Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, and left at least two dozen still missing ...
As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of Comfort — a last-ditch warning to get out for those who had missed cellphone ...
Sirens are also limited to a certain radius of people who can hear during “clear” conditions. Heavy rainfall and river ...
Officials in a Texas town where nobody died amid the state's devastating flooding last week are crediting an updated siren ...
Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the ...
The 50-foot poles along the San Marcos River have sirens for severe weather, wildfires and tornadoes — and they were put to ...
Sirens are not triggered during flooding or flash flooding in Polk County. Outdoor warning sirens are only activated for tornado warnings or severe thunderstorm warnings with wind speeds of 70 mph or ...
Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began ...