Staff report

According to a press release Monday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot has added 24 counties, including Hays County, to a disaster declaration first issued on May 11.

The move will authorize further mobilization of state resources to assist impacted areas. 

It comes as severe weather continues across the state. Current forecasts call for the continuation of possibly severe storms, large hail, damaging winds and flash and river flooding.

“The State of Texas has taken brisk action in dispat...