FEMA Says Kerr County Texans Affected by Severe Storms and Flooding on July 2 and Continuing Can Apply for Possible Assistance

A former official from Kerr County Texas, said that the community was not in favour of putting up outdoor emergency sirens in 2017 and that the federal grant for them failed to be approved due to a lack of funding.

Kerr County, where dozens of people—many of them children—died in this weekend's catastrophic flooding, knew flash floods were a danger in the area—but its application for a grant to improve its flood warning system was rejected by the Texas Division of Emergency Management in both 2017 and 2018,