Why flash flood warnings will continue to go unheeded

Grist
By Rebecca Egan McCarthyJul 16, 2025, 4:15 am99 pts
This year’s Fourth of July was the first time that the town of Comfort, Texas, used the sirens intended to warn its roughly 2,000 residents of imminent flooding. Founded by German abolitionists in 1854, Comfort sits along the Guadalupe River in an area known as “Flash Flood Alley.” It installed its…

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