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1don MSN
For the third straight day, thunderstorms have posed what meteorologists call life-threatening conditions in the Hill Country, where flooding earlier this month killed at least 131 people.
Small percentage of Harris County residents registered for flood control district’s warning alerts
Flood-prone Harris County has had a flooding warning system since the 1980s, but only about 14,000 of its 5 million residents are signed up to receive alerts.
The latest death count from the July 4 flash flood event in Texas is up to 129 with more than 170 people still missing.
9don MSN
For days before catastrophic floods left parts of Central Texas inundated, the National Weather Service was tracking the chance of rain.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker Dustin Burrows have assembled a select committee to take up a warning system after the deadly July 4 flood.
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