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More than 100 people were killed in the flooding that overtook the Hill Country and other parts of Central Texas during the Fourth of July weekend.
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Kidd highlighted concerns about volunteer management, local emergency management credentials and codification for the state's mass fatality operations team.
In the early days of July, pieces of weather systems were converging to create a disaster over Texas Hill Country that would transform the Guadalupe River into a monster raging out of its banks in the pre-dawn hours of July 4, claiming the lives of more than 129 people. At least 160 are still missing.
Three days after tragedy struck central Texas on the morning of July 4 with a deadly flash flood that has killed at least 82 people, a timeline of events has begun to come into focus. An unknown number remain missing, including girls attending a summer camp.
The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.
NWS says Flash Flood Warnings were issued on July 3 and early July 4 in Central Texas, giving more than three hours of warning.
Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Department of Emergency Management, spoke before lawmakers, laying out a timeline of notifications leading up to the flooding.