07-05-2025, 09:59 PM
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told reporters that it is up to local mayors and counties to evacuate if they feel the need and many were unsure where the storm would land.
At a news conference Friday, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said the county does not have a warning system on the river.
Kelly was pressed by a reporter as to why evacuations didn't take place Thursday, but the judge said, "We didn't know this flood was coming."
"We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States, and we deal with floods on a regular basis. When it rains, we get water. We had no reason to believe that this was going to be anything like what's happened here, none whatsoever," he said.
So the State and County disavow all knowledge to make a clean getaway.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/night-texas-of...=123499929
32 dead at the time of the link.
Now, could a portable radio, at the campsite(s) tuned to the NWS have been able to provide a warning?
Radio reception can be spotty in hilly terrain and in valleys.
Or a sat phone to receive notifications from someone in the organization monitoring the NWS?
This isn't a criticism of the campers, but a question of how they might be more self-reliant and make their own decisions when the county doesn't deem an NWS advisory as seeing it coming.
At a news conference Friday, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said the county does not have a warning system on the river.
Kelly was pressed by a reporter as to why evacuations didn't take place Thursday, but the judge said, "We didn't know this flood was coming."
"We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States, and we deal with floods on a regular basis. When it rains, we get water. We had no reason to believe that this was going to be anything like what's happened here, none whatsoever," he said.
So the State and County disavow all knowledge to make a clean getaway.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/night-texas-of...=123499929
32 dead at the time of the link.
Now, could a portable radio, at the campsite(s) tuned to the NWS have been able to provide a warning?
Radio reception can be spotty in hilly terrain and in valleys.
Or a sat phone to receive notifications from someone in the organization monitoring the NWS?
This isn't a criticism of the campers, but a question of how they might be more self-reliant and make their own decisions when the county doesn't deem an NWS advisory as seeing it coming.