Hydrology professor develops simple outdoor flood alarm to save lives

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Jul 15, 2026, 7:20 am119 ptsTrending
In the aftermath of the devastating July 4, 2025, floods that took 139 lives in Central Texas, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin set out to make a new type of outdoor flood alarm: a low-tech, loud alarm that anyone could "set and forget"—just like a smoke detector.

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