Guadalupe River, flood
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Texas, Trump and flood
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Plans to develop a flood monitoring system in the Texas county hit hardest by deadly floods were scheduled to begin only a few weeks later.
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.
With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a wellspring and a looming menace.