Texas, Kerr County and flood
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The number of confirmed deaths from the Texas Hill Country floods rose to 95 in Kerr County on Wednesday, Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
As of 6:25 p.m. on Wednesday, 96 people — 60 adults and 36 children — are dead after Hill Country flooding, Kerr County officials said.
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Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in Kerr County on the Fourth of July.
TEGNA Texas created a new charitable fund raising money to support people impacted by devastating floods in Central Texas.
As ABC News first reported, during a meeting on April 17 of this year, the Upper Guadalupe River Authority's Board of Directors unanimously voted to select a company known as Kisters "as the firm to develop a Flood Warning System in Kerr County."
The event was held as search crews and volunteers continued to scour miles along the Guadalupe River for the people still missing.
Kerr County officials say they are still focused mainly on the search for survivors with hundreds still missing and weren't yet examining how the emergency response unfolded.
A 20-month-old Austin boy died in the Kerr County flash flood after his family’s home was engulfed by water, a family member confirmed.