With low-lying areas in Texarkana and a year of unusually heavy rain, city officials are watching flooding and stepping up preventive measures.

While creeks are cleaned and barriers placed across flooded roads, water creeping toward homes and businesses is harder to fix, and many citizens struggled to find sandbags in recent storms.

Texarkana, Texas, City Manager Larry Sullivan said he was unaware of any concerns over a lack of sandbags, but some are available to the public through the city street department.

“That’s not something we have ever really geared ...

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