Emergency manager warns of localized flooding; 911 outage reported

Lance Brown, Jim Wells County Emergency Management Coordinator, told the commission during public testimony that the county had received "some pretty significant rain" and that several streets and creeks were beginning to flood. He urged residents not to drive through standing water and said county crews were monitoring conditions.

Brown reported a communications issue that affected emergency response: "I just got word right now that our 911 system's down," and said the county was working to reroute calls and restore service. He added that Spectrum service outages were also affecting communications and that the county would push road‑closure and safety updates through social channels and other alerts. Brown listed state and mutual‑aid assets staged in the county — high‑water vehicles, ambulances, Army trucks and potential helicopter staging — and said the presence of those assets was intended to support response and was "nothing to be alarmed about."