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- Climate
- Wall Street Journal
Officials Pushed for Better Warning System Years Before Devastating Texas Floods
A former sheriff pushed Kerr County commissioners nearly a decade ago to adopt a more robust flood-warning system, telling government officials how he 'spent hours in those helicopters pulling kids out of trees here (in) our summer camps,' according to meeting records.
Then-Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer was a proponent of outdoor sirens, having responded as a deputy to the 1987 floods that killed 10 teenagers at a camp in nearby Kendall County. He made the comments in 2016, after deadly floods ravaged a different part of Texas the year before.
