Kerr County faces scrutiny after a devastating flash flood claimed over 100 lives during the Fourth of July weekend. A CNN investigation reveals the county’s failure to implement basic emergency alert systems, despite repeated warnings and available funding. The lack of sirens and real-time communication with the National Weather Service contributed to the tragedy, prompting criticism of systemic inaction and avoidable loss of life.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kerr County faces scrutiny after a devastating flash flood claimed over 100 lives during the Fourth of July weekend. A CNN investigation reveals the county’s failure to implement basic emergency alert systems, despite repeated warnings and available funding. The lack of sirens and real-time communication with the National Weather Service contributed to the tragedy, prompting… Read More »Years of inaction, minutes of terror: Over 100 dead in Texas flood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}