Texas, floods
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By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.
A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.
The official tally of storm-related deaths across Texas rose to 131 on Monday as authorities warned of yet another round of heavy rains 10 days after a Hill Country flash flood that transformed the Guadalupe River into a killer torrent.
The Economist/YouGov poll surveyed nearly 1,680 U.S. adults this week, and 52% blamed lack of government preparation for most of the deaths, mainly centered in Kerr County along the Guadalupe River.
The deaths of children at Camp Mystic show a heartbreaking failure of local, state and federal government to invest in people, prepare for disasters.
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
Crews search for victims of flooding that has killed almost 90 people in Texas Hill Country, with the risk of more flooding still high in central parts of the state. Authorities said Monday that
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