Texas Flooding Death Toll Climbs
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Search crews continued the grueling task of recovering the missing as more potential flash flooding threatened Texas Hill Country.
The threat of heavy rain is “slight” for this weekend, but with the ground fully saturated in Kerr County even small amounts of rainfall could cause flooding.
Areas badly damaged by July 4th flooding in Texas Hill Country are on alert for a new flash flooding threat through the weekend.
"The first lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support and the anguish of our entire nation in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood," Trump said as he spoke at a roundtable event with first responders and local officials.
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.
The Houston Texans were the first to announce their donations on Saturday, July 5, with more coming throughout the week. The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL Foundation joined the Texans on Sunday, July 6, with each contributing $500,000 in a $1.5 million total donation.
At a Wednesday morning press conference, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha declined to answer a question about delayed emergency alerts, saying that an "after-action" would follow the search and rescue efforts. "Those questions are gonna be answered," he added.