By CLAUDIA LAUERAs the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of Comfort — a last-ditch warning to get out for those who had missed cellphone alerts and firefighters going street-to-street telling people to get out.Related ArticlesGun makers lose appeal of New York law that could make them liable for shootingsUS has reclosed its southern border after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north in MexicoCentral Florida Dems say Medicaid users, public school students first at risk from ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’Ford recalls over 850,000 cars in the US due to potential fuel pump failureFreed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administrationDaniel Morales, assistant chief of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, believes that long, flat tone the morning of July Fourth saved lives.The sirens are a testament to the determination of a community that has experienced deadly floods in the past, warning residents of devastating floodwaters that hours earlier had killed at least 118 people in communities along the same river, including 27 campers and counselors in neighboring Kerr County.
That county did not have a warning system like the one in Comfort.Everyone in Comfort, a more than 2,200-person unincorporated community in Kendall County, survived the flooding with many people along the river evacuating in time, Morales said.Comfort residents were driven by historyMorales ha.