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Actually to address why we don’t have a warning system. I live in Kerrville, the warning I got were after 6 am, by that time the river had already taken lives and destroyed others. We quite frequently get flash flood warnings. But this time they came way too late. What we needed was to be notified when the flooding started and to have evacuation warnings. Center Point, a few miles down the Guadalupe River and Hwy 27, a much smaller town than Kerrville, has a siren system to alert those in town to evacuate if they lived near the river. We don’t even have that. Maybe many don’t realize this, but Kerrville is a destination for very wealthy people, many come here to retire. Yet citizens won’t pay extra to install a warning system. This is deep MAGA land where people don’t want to fork over money if they don’t benefit from it. My hope is that residents here in Kerr County vote to support the installation of a warning system, so tragedies like the July 4th flood and loss of life never, ever happens again. I have posted some pictures on my Substack from this evening. It’s just devastating.

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