US Edition'I Didn’t Have Time to Think': Well-Known Local Rescues Woman From Rising Flood
KERR COUNTY, TEXAS, JUL 15 – Construction in flood-prone zones at Camp Mystic and federal policy rollbacks weakened protections, contributing to rising flood deaths during the hottest decade on record, officials say.
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'It'll get us again': Trove of recordings shows locals warned of deadly TX flood
In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decades-long effort by the Kerr County Historical Commission to document the community’s history, Secor had a lot to say about the area’s floods.“It always seems to happen at night too,” Secor said of local floods he and his family had experienced. “Can’t see most …
Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.
After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas.
Torrent (Valencia), 15 Jul (EFE).- The associations of victims of the dana of 29 October have warned this Tuesday that the negationism of climate change "kills" and have urged the different administrations to take this issue into account when dealing with future extreme weather events. This has been raised during the event of the European Day of the Victims of Climate Change organized by the Intermunicipal Mancomunitat de l’Horta Sud, the group …
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