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HEADLINE: Here’s a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods by Gabrielle Emanuel

• At least 67 people died in the floods, with 59 of the confirmed deaths occuring in Kerr County. Frantic search efforts continue for 11 girls from a local Christian summer camp — Camp Mystic — who remain missing, as well as other missing individuals. Officials added that more than 850 people have been rescued, including over 100 airlifted from the region.
• Kerrville City Manager Rice said he started getting calls around 5 a.m. about the flooding. He said upstream of the city two branches converge into the Guadalupe River and that both forks had received more rain than expected. “It was about seven feet or so on the south fork, and within a matter of minutes, it was up to 29 feet.”
• Do the math here.
• To issue an evacuation order on a holiday is a difficult thing for Mayors etc

• That area typically has a few inches of soil sitting atop a limestone base and it just does’t hold water.
• There aren’t alarms all the way down the river.
• I am not placing blame on anyone at this time but social media is NOT the way to communicate a natural disaster. 
• That is what the EAS system is for.
• The importance of radio and radio alerts.
• Emergency backup generators – radio stations just aren’t supposed to go down and most of them don’t. The radio station in New Orleans that was flooded for days was only down for 4 hours during the entire week of disaster.

FLASHBACK AUDIO/VIDEO: 1987 Flash Flood of Guadalupe River where 40 kids were swept away in a camp bus, 10 children died.

HEADLINE: Death Toll From Texas Floods Rises to 82, Including 28 Children; Trump Plans Visit by Jacob Burg and TJ Muscaro

• Two days after catastrophic flash floods raged through c

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