Texas, the flooding
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Robert Earl Keen has a personal connection to Kerrville, TX, the site of massive flooding on July 4 that authorities say resulted in the deaths of 111 people, with nearly 170 still unaccounted for at press time.
One Kerrville, Texas business owner is grappling with the reality that her restaurant was almost totally submerged.
In a Sunday afternoon press conference, Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice indicated for the first time that officials would review their protocols.
The loss of more than 100 lives, many of them children, to Hill Country floods over the July Fourth weekend has shaken Texans to the core. Closer to home, at least 16 people have died in floods in the Austin area .More than 170 people are still reported missing.
A "Basic Plan" for emergency response for three Texas counties, including Kerr County, labeled flash flooding as "highly likely" to occur, with a "major" impact on public health and safety, according to an ABC News review of a page on the Kerrville city website.
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KCEN-TV on MSNExplainer: How the Kerrville flooding happenedNews Meteorologist Matt Farrell explains the variety of factors that led to historic and deadly flooding in Texas.
The death toll in the central Texas flooding is up to 119 people, 95 of them in Kerr County, including 36 children.