Texas, flash flood and disaster relief
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Speed defined AP’s coverage of deadly floods in Texas from the start. As the news unfolded on the July Fourth holiday, AP’s Texas staff immediately
The Office of the Inspector General on Friday announced it has initiated an audit on National Weather Service staffing levels and an examination into the “circumstances” surrounding
Residents south of the San Saba River in west-central Texas have been ordered to evacuate because of surging waters.
The remains of a beloved Houston woman have been located and positively identified after fatal flash flooding ripped through the Texas Hill Country.
A sprawling area of storms infused with tropical moisture is dropping heavy rain along the Gulf Coast Thursday and could produce significant flash flooding into the weekend. Louisiana is at the greatest risk for dangerous flash flooding,
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The Cool Down on MSN20 states join forces to sue US agencies in wake of deadly Texas floods: 'Abandoning states and local communities'Twenty states joined forces in the wake of deadly flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas, filing a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the federal government — over what plaintiffs assert was an unlawful decision to strip FEMA of critical disaster response funding in April.
A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.
Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social media. It is not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.