Kerr County officials failed to follow certain aspects of disaster plan during Texas floods

A woman looks at a pile of debris in Hunt on July 8. The area was one of the hardest hit during the holiday floods that killed more than 100 people. (Credit: Brenda Bazán for The Texas Tribune)

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A five-year-old emergency management plan, obtained by The Texas Tribune late Thursday, shows that Kerr County and Kerrville officials were operating from a generic disaster response template that, in some cases, officials failed to follow when 30-plus feet of floodwaters swamped the Guadalupe River banks on July 4.