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A Texas congressman is quietly helping Elon Musk pitch building $760M tunnels under Houston to ease flooding

Posted on August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. This article is co-published with The Texas Newsroom, the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas. Also, sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The devastating flooding in Houston caused by…

TribCast: How will Texas protect its campers from future floods?

Posted on August 26, 2025August 26, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor talk to Texas Tribune climate reporter Emily Foxhall about the emotional pleas Camp Mystic parents made to state lawmakers and analyze the proposed new laws in…

San Antonio Zoo to disburse 20,000 complimentary tickets to folks affected by Texas floods

Posted on August 26, 2025August 26, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

click to enlarge Courtesy Photo / San Antonio Zoo The recently renovated front entrance greets visitors to the San Antonio Zoo. The San Antonio Zoo will disburse 20,000 complimentary tickets to people affected by the deadly July 4 floods in the Texas Hill Country as part of its Zoo Cares: Together for Texans campaign, officials with the attraction said. “The success of this effort reflects the power of Texans helping Texans,” Zoo President and CEO…

Hurricane Harvey destroyed this Texas county’s courthouse. Eight years later, it’s still not finished.

Posted on August 21, 2025August 21, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. ROCKPORT — For years, Aransas County officials wanted to knock down and rebuild their courthouse. Then Hurricane Harvey hit. The storm made landfall here on Aug. 25, 2017,…

A new bridge connecting Lago Vista and Marble Falls is open, replacing one destroyed by July floods

Posted on August 19, 2025August 19, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

A bridge over Cow Creek along RM 1431 in Northwest Travis County is open again — nearly a month ahead of schedule. The 240-foot bridge, which connects Lago Vista to Marble Falls, had to be completely reconstructed after it was destroyed by floodwaters on July 5. “Ultimately, there’s one thing about bridges, and that is, it connects communities; it connects people,” Gov. Greg Abbott said at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new bridge on…

Thousands of Austin properties sit in areas prone to flooding. Here's how to find out if you're in one.

Posted on August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Last month’s disastrous flooding has a lot of people thinking about the flood risk in their own homes and neighborhoods. Even if they’ve never experienced a flood in the past, could enough rain falling in the right (or wrong) place trigger one some day? Floodplain maps are usually the best place to begin understanding that risk. Accessing them online is pretty straightforward. But different maps can provide different kinds of information, and Austin maps are…

After Hill Country floods, families face a difficult question: Rebuild, or let go?

Posted on August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Texas Tribune. Brian Keeper doesn’t remember exactly when his family began spending holidays in Hunt, an unincorporated town on the banks of the…

San Antonio River Authority has a new plan to prevent flash flooding deaths. Will Texas fund it?

Posted on August 10, 2025August 10, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

In the weeks after a heavy June 12 rain swept multiple cars off the road in San Antonio leaving 13 people dead, local officials say an investigation has uncovered some relatively low cost safety measures that could be implemented quickly to prevent such tragedies in the future. On Tuesday, Bexar County Commissioners approved roughly $10 million to fix and improve rain gauges at low-water crossings, update flood projections and install gates that officials can proactively…

Texas identifies the 119 people killed in Hill Country floods

Posted on August 8, 2025August 8, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Almost a month after the catastrophic Hill Country floods swept away local residents, out-of-towners and summer campers, Texas Rangers have released the names of the 119 people who lost their lives. On July…

Deadly floods prompt $20M flood alert system in San Antonio

Posted on August 7, 2025August 8, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

A flooded area is shown on the Northeast Side of San Antonio, in between Austin Highway and Loop 410. Courtesy of Zachary Wright/MySA This past June, San Antonio mourned the loss of 13 residents who were swept from roads during a record rainfall event that brought creeks, rivers, and even highways to dangerous water levels. Roughly one month later, at least 134 were confirmed dead after monstrous floods hit the Texas Hill Country, which began…

Acrocantho-what? This dinosaur's footprint was found in the Austin area after the July floods

Posted on August 7, 2025August 7, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Several massive, three-toed footprints etched in limestone were discovered near Big Sandy Creek during cleanup after the July 5 flood. Some of the dinosaur tracks were hidden by brush; others had been covered in sediment that was scoured away by floodwaters. “It’s one of those sort of bittersweet things about our job, is that it’s the cataclysmic events that often preserve fossils in the first place and then also are exposing them,” Matthew Brown, a…

Bad Takes: Talking about climate change's role in the Central Texas floods isn't 'politicizing the issue'

Posted on August 6, 2025August 6, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

click to enlarge Texas Tribune / Karim Shuaib II The July’s Central Texas flooding is responsible for at least 137 deaths. Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. If we cannot recognize our own given natures and the natural world as setting any limit at all upon the desires that we contemplate taking seriously; if we will not listen to the anticipations and suspicions of the artefactual conception of human beings that sound in half-forgotten…

Nearly 200 homes in Travis County were damaged by July flooding

Posted on August 6, 2025August 6, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Nearly 200 homes in the Big Sandy Creek neighborhood in northwestern Travis County were damaged by flooding on July 5, according to a report released Monday by county officials. Of the homes affected, 71 were mobile homes and 127 were single-family houses. Travis County is offering short term housing, temporary property tax relief and waiving permitting fees for people rebuilding their homes. Residents can also apply for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but…

Texas bills increasing youth camp safety face long odds, even after Hill Country floods

Posted on August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Although not specifically named in Gov. Greg Abbott’s list of directives for the current special legislative session, state lawmakers have filed several bills to shore up the safety of youth camps in the…

Kerr County officials failed to follow certain aspects of disaster plan during Texas floods

Posted on August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 by WeatherPreppers

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A five-year-old emergency management plan, obtained by The Texas Tribune late Thursday, shows that Kerr County and Kerrville officials were operating from a generic disaster response template that, in some cases, officials failed…

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