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Trees are bent around the pier of a bridge on Louise Hays Park in Kerrville on July 5, 2025.

Did fiscal conservatism block plans for a new flood warning system in Kerr County?

In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.


Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly speaks during a press conference at the Hill Country Youth Event Center in Kerrville on Saturday July 5, 2025.

County zeroes in on river safety in 2016

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During a camp evacuation ahead of rising floodwaters, a Seagoville Road Baptist Church bus was swept into the Guadalupe River near the town of Comfort during the July 17, 1987 flood. 43 people — four adults and 39 teenagers — were washed into the river. 10 teenagers died.

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