❤️‍🩹 Austin flood victims ID’d

🦟 What Austin Water Is Like Right Now

Local officials are warning residents to keep out of Austin waterways due to debris and bacterial runoff that flooded into creeks and rivers from the Hill Country over the weekend. Austinites should also empty any standing water they have outside to avoid the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and West Nile Virus. [KUT]

• Officials at Austin Water, the city’s main water utility, say its systems are currently operating normally. [Austin Water]
• Some Austin-area flood victims have been identified. [KUT]

🤔 Kerr County Asked for New Flood Alarms 3 Times

Kerr County officials asked the state to help fund an early flood warning system three separate times since 2016, but were rejected at least twice. [Houston Chronicle]

🏠 The Best Tips for Renting in Austin

Despite all these headlines about declining rent, being a tenant in Austin is annoying, hard, and too expensive. There are a handful of tips every Austin renter should know. [City Cast Austin 🎧]

🌧️ Small Chance of Rain Today Before Dry Weekend

Austin has a 30% chance of rain through 7 p.m. today, before the area clears up until Sunday. Dry conditions and high temperatures in the mid-90s are expected for the rest of the week starting tomorrow. [National Weather Service]