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Gov. Greg Abbott adds flood response, disaster readiness to special session after deadly Central Texas floods
The special session agenda includes 18 legislative priorities, with several directly addressing the recent disaster.
After Texas floods, questions about FEMA's future loom large
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been exerting more direct control over the agency, which President Trump has ...
In Texas flood response, FEMA slowed by Noem’s cost controls
As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
These Mexican camp counselors put on 'brave faces' to protect girls during Texas floods
On the morning of July 7, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo expressed condolences for the lives lost in the floods.
Texas officials approved Camp Mystic's operating plan days before the fatal floods
Two days before flash floods on the Guadalupe River in Texas killed dozens of campers at a Christian girls summer camp, a ...
Texas flooding, and politics around it, underscore the challenges Trump faces in replacing FEMA
Noem said the rapid delivery of funds to Texas resembled the “state block grants” model Trump has promoted. It’s an idea that ...
Ways to help Texas flooding victims while avoiding scams
Monetary donations are the most effective way to help, and several reputable organizations are accepting funds.
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“Disasters are a human choice”: Texas counties have little power to stop building in flood-prone areas
Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.
Texas county hard-hit by floods had contract, meeting set for warning system
A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.