Wireless Emergency Alerts system was used for the Texas floods – but several problems<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Authorities came under fire when it was suggested there were no warnings of the flash floods in Texas, which resulted in at least 120 lives being lost, with many more people still missing.</p>
<p>In fact, the Wireless Emergency Alerts system
was used to send multiple warnings, but a number of issues meant that many Texans didn’t receive them or act on them – and a new report suggests that’s a hard problem to fix … </p>
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Wireless Emergency Alerts system was used for the Texas floods – but several problems
