{"id":865719,"date":"2025-08-16T21:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/texas-officials-say-they-didnt-see-the-flood-coming-oral-histories-show-residents-have-long-warned-of-risks\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:15:33","slug":"texas-officials-say-they-didnt-see-the-flood-coming-oral-histories-show-residents-have-long-warned-of-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/texas-officials-say-they-didnt-see-the-flood-coming-oral-histories-show-residents-have-long-warned-of-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Officials Say They Didn\u2019t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Logan Jaffe                <\/p>\n<p>In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decadeslong effort by the Kerr County Historical Commission to document the community\u2019s history&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/texas-floods-oral-histories\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n by Logan Jaffe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Logan Jaffe In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decadeslong effort by the Kerr County Historical Commission to document the community\u2019s history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,192,836],"tags":[5863,5979],"class_list":{"0":"post-865719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-officials","8":"category-sports","9":"category-texas","10":"tag-officials","11":"tag-texas"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}