President Donald Trump met with victims' families and surveyed the damage of catastrophic floods that struck the state one week ago.

A small Texas town that recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster had recently upgraded its emergency alert system — the kind of setup state, county and federal officials

Kerr County considered adding warning sirens years before flood. Why didn’t it happen? Commissioner Court meeting transcripts outline opposition to sirens over cost, noise and lack of local support.

FEMA records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show that Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System to send warnings with safety instructions to all mobile phones in the affected area during critical hours as the flooding began on July 4.

In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.