Weather

Alert fatigue may have led some residents to ignore warnings. Spotty cell service also could have kept some alerts from coming in at all.

The 50-foot poles along the San Marcos River have sirens for severe weather, wildfires and tornadoes — and they were put to use last weekend.

For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the breaking point when the Trump administration began pushing new staffing cuts.

Hundreds have come out to help clean the Hope House property after floods tore through the Liberty Hill campus and took the life of their office manager.

Social media users shared the news far and wide, highlighting the importance — and the difficulty — of separating fact from fiction during a disaster.

Local officials have not answered questions about when and how they utilized the CodeRED system, which has been in place since 2009.

The head of the Austin Firefighters Association called for Joel Barker's resignation. Union members will vote this week on whether he should continue to lead the department in the largely symbolic vote.

More than a dozen people in the Austin area were killed by floodwaters over the July Fourth weekend. Others from the area died in the flooding in Kerr County.

A preservation expert says many people would be surprised by how many paper goods can come back from water damage.

Also: San Antonio mourned the victims in a Travis Park vigil; UTSA said one of its teachers died in the Guadalupe River flood; Kerrville officials said a privately owned drone collided with a helicopter conducting search and rescue operations.