Plans for flood warning system floundered before Hill Country floods, witnesses tell legislative flood committee

Plans for flood warning system floundered before Hill Country floods, witnesses tell legislative flood committee

Texas legislators on Wednesday lambasted a local river authority for a decision last year not to move ahead with pursuing a flood warning system — a decision that Republican Sen. Paul Bettencourt from Houston declared was “pathetic.”

The Upper Guadalupe River Authority chose tax cuts over improving flood warning systems

The authority is under scrutiny after the July 4 floods killed over 130 people in Texas.