Texas county commissioners previously suggested "river calling," an informal phone chain used by summer camps, would be better than installing new flood sirens.

As deaths from catastrophic Texas flooding surpassed 100 on Monday, local officials in one of the hardest-hit counties have still revealed little about what, if any, actions they took to safeguard residents,

A former official from Kerr County Texas, said that the community was not in favour of putting up outdoor emergency sirens in 2017 and that the federal grant for them failed to be approved due to a lack of funding.