'Helping Every Way We Can': Leander Mayor Talks Flood Response

'Helping every way we can': Leander mayor talks flood response

LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) -- A somber anniversary across the state of Texas on Friday as it marks three weeks since deadly flooding during the July 4 holiday weekend. The Sandy Creek area in Travis County, just outside Leander, was hit hard. Some people who live in and around the area have been critical about the response from both nearby cities and counties. That includes people targeting Leander's mayor, Christine DeLisle. In a lengthy Facebook po…

FEMA Chief Responds to Criticisms, Calls Texas Flood Response ‘Model’ for Future Disasters

Responding to recent criticisms, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) acting Administrator David Richardson said the federal response to the catastrophic Texas floods earlier this month was exemplary. “I can’t see anything that we did wrong,” Richardson told a House panel of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on July 23, calling the relationship between state and federal agencies “a model for how disasters should be handled…

Lawmakers review state response to July 4th floods

Members of the House and Senate spent all day Wednesday hearing from state emergency response officials about what went right and what went wrong in the state response to the disastrous floods that