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		<title>Trump Says More FEMA Aid Is Coming to Texas After 2026 Floods</title>
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					<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump pledged to provide more federal aid to Texas flood victims after the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied the state&#8217;s initial request to help individuals recovering from widespread floods in July. The flooding swept through portions of southwest &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Hill Country Floods Inspire New Law for Emergency Weather Alerts</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/10/26/890322.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Under a new federal law, National Weather Service warnings of life-threatening flash floods or other emergencies could be sent to cellphones via satellite if cell service goes down. The law, called the &#8220;Mystic Alerts Act,&#8221; comes more than a year &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>TCEQ Shuts Down Online Permit Filing System After Data Center Controversy</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/10/23/890171.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has shut down its automated electronic filing system after watchdog groups said the agency violated a directive from Gov. Greg Abbott and issued multiple stormwater permits related to data center construction. The agency said &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FEMA Won&#8217;t Help Texas After July 2026 Floods</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/10/22/890050.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied a request for federal aid to individuals needing help after the July 2026 floods in Texas, which swamped homes in Uvalde and damaged properties across Kerr County — in some cases for a &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Edouard Causes Life-Threatening Flooding in East Texas</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/09/02/883699.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Life-threatening flash flooding was hitting areas of East Texas north of Beaumont early Wednesday morning, as more than 20 inches of rain had fallen from the remnants of Tropical Storm Edouard in some places, federal forecasters said. At least one &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Mobilizes Ahead of Tropical Storm Edouard</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/09/01/883570.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Texas is mobilizing emergency response crews in anticipation of expected flash flooding from a now fully-formed tropical storm that forecasters predicted would hit the southeast part of the state on Tuesday. Federal forecasters elevated a tropical depression in the Gulf &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Homeowners, Industry Collide Over Transmission Lines</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/08/20/882358.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[property rights]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Flashes of yellow were all around the Texas Capitol grounds on Wednesday as legislators gathered to consider two of the most controversial issues in Texas politics: data centers and transmission lines. The color — displayed on bandanas, pins, shirts and &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Doesn&#8217;t Require Training for All Emergency Coordinators</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/07/06/876327.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[camp safety]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[In legislative hearings after last year&#8217;s July 4 floods, the state&#8217;s emergency management chief made some recommendations to state lawmakers. They included empowering the agency to vet volunteers who show up after disasters and establishing clearer guidelines for local officials &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Camp Won&#8217;t Reopen This Summer Following Flood Deaths</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/05/01/868077.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 07:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Camp Mystic on Thursday said it has withdrawn its application for an operating license, a decision that means it will not reopen to campers this summer. The decision follows a grueling hearing earlier this week when Texas lawmakers pushed the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Summer Camps Sue to Block New Internet Rule</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/04/09/865138.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Nineteen camps in Texas have filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a new state requirement for them to install &#8220;end-to-end fiber optic facilities&#8221; in order to operate this summer. The requirement that the camps install fiber optic internet does not &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Camp Can&#8217;t Alter Its Property While Civil Suit Proceeds, Judge Rules</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/03/05/860663.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Camp Mystic cannot alter its property by the Guadalupe River where 27 girls and the camp&#8217;s executive director died last summer, so that evidence can be preserved while a lawsuit proceeds, a judge in Austin ruled Wednesday. The camp cannot &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Families of Flood Victims Texas Over Camp Mystic Disaster Response</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/02/26/859748.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Texas health officials failed to follow state law when they licensed Camp Mystic without making sure it had an evacuation plan, parents of nine children and counselors who died in the July 4 flood allege in a new federal lawsuit. &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texts Show Texas Officials&#8217; Confusion About Campers&#8217; Fate Amid Flood</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2026/01/14/854286.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The first 911 call from the historic Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River came in at 3:57 a.m., when a caller told the dispatcher she was stranded on a hill and cabins around her were filling with water. Around the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>County Officials in Texas Race to Build $5M Warning System Before Next Flood Season</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/12/19/851759.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[central texas flooding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood mitigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerr County flooding]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[With the next Texas flood season just months away, Kerr County officials say they&#8217;re in a race to build a long-planned flood warning system estimated to cost up to $5 million — and they&#8217;re depending on the state to contribute &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Federal Funding Shortage Delays Progress on &#8216;Ike Dike&#8217; Project in Texas Gulf Coast</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/12/08/850255.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[flood mitigation]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[The district charged with overseeing the construction of a massive set of gates across the mouth of Galveston Bay — known as the &#8220;Ike Dike&#8221; — announced last week that it has approved contracts with two global engineering firms to &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Camp Mystic Parents Pushed for Camp Safety Laws But Their Pain Remains</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/09/16/839312.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Matthew Childress arrived at Matt&#8217;s El Rancho, an Austin restaurant, on Sept. 4 with mixed feelings of anticipation and grief. He greeted the other parents with hugs. This group had largely been strangers two months earlier, before they learned that &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Lawmakers Advance Flood Bills With Grieving Parents in Attendance</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/08/22/836699.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[deadly texas floods]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Nearly seven weeks ago on July 4, the Guadalupe River raged out of its banks and killed more than 130 people, including two teenage counselors and 25 young girls at Camp Mystic who had been asleep in their cabins before &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas House Members Discuss Flood-Related Bills Despite Standstill</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/08/06/834778.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Texas House members on a special committee for disaster preparedness met Tuesday to discuss for the first time specific bills filed in response to the deadly Central Texas flooding. The hearing included bills that would require flood disaster plans for &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kerrville Officials&#8217; Messages Show Lack of Information About Coming Floods</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/08/01/833986.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 05:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[As the floods hit, Kerrville officials&#8217; messages show lack of information about what was coming&#8221; was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Long-Standing Problems Led Up to Deadly Texas Floods, Lawmakers Told</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/07/24/833008.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[deadly texas floods]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[No minimum qualifications for local emergency management coordinators. No easy way to know if local officials are getting weather warnings. Difficulty getting all first responders on the same radio communication channel. And the bodies of flood victims from the same &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Public Utility Commission Reports on CenterPoint Energy&#8217;s Beryl Response</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2024/11/26/802697.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[When Hurricane Beryl swept through southeast Texas on July 8, its damaging 80-mile-per-hour winds took down thousands of trees and knocked out much of the electricity system. More than 2.6 million Texas power customers went without electricity for days in &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oil and Gas Power Lines Suspected of Causing Texas Panhandle Wildfires</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2024/08/01/786665.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[When a spate of wildfires tore across the Texas Panhandle in February and scorched 20,000 acres of Craig Cowden&#8217;s ranch near Skellytown, he decided he had had enough. Cowden took on a second unofficial job: looking for possible fire hazards &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Texas Mass Power Outages Continue to Happen</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2024/07/19/784753.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s become a familiar cycle: A powerful storm sweeps through a swath of Texas and takes the electric system down in its grip. Trees might bend and topple, crashing down onto a power pole. Sometimes the weight of ice pulls &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Electricity Demand Could Nearly Double in Six Years &#8211; ERCOT</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2024/06/20/780565.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The state&#8217;s main electric grid operator has sharply increased its prediction for how much power demand will increase in coming years. If it&#8217;s accurate, the state would need to be able to provide nearly double the amount of power within &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>These Texans Aren&#8217;t Taking Buyouts Despite Repeated Floods</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2024/05/21/775245.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 16:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flood Buyout Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood risk areas]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[HARRIS COUNTY — After the floodwaters earlier this month just about swallowed two of the six homes that 60-year-old Tom Madigan owns on the San Jacinto River, he didn&#8217;t think twice about whether to fix them. He hired people to &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Utility Rules Didn&#8217;t Prevent Panhandle Wildfires</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2024/03/08/764177.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Texas / South Central News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas panhandle wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas wildfires]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Before it burned to a pile of ashes, Melanie McQuiddy&#8217;s house on the outskirts of Canadian was her family&#8217;s home base. Her daughter and grandchildren flocked there for holidays. At Christmastime, she put a tree in every room and transformed &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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