WIMBERLEY — During its Jan. 15 meeting, Wimberley City Council heard a presentation from Hays County Office of Emergency Services Director Mike Jones on sirens and other emergency-related alerts in the city.
The update given by Jones follows a previous discussion that city council had last year after the flooding events that took place in several areas across the Texas Hill Country during the Fourth of July weekend. At the time, Wimberley Mayor Jim Chiles said that he had been in conversation with Jones, who had explained that the county was working to receive a grant that would help in getting sirens, as the city is interested in having those for weather-related emergency communications.
Hays County will be installing a Perry Weather system over Jacob’s Well. This system identifies when lightning strikes 10 miles from a location, Jones explained, with the possibility to narrow down that mile radius even further.
