Deadliest floods in Texas history
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Officials say at least 81 people have died in flooding triggered by unrelenting rain Thursday night into Saturday.
Multiple parts of Central Texas, including Kerr County, were shocked by flash floods Friday when the Guadalupe River and others rose rapidly.
The Fourth of July flooding had an outsized effect not just on the Hill Country but also on rain-starved Texas cities like San Antonio and Austin.
At least 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic perished in Friday's floods, with the total death toll in the floods now surpassing 100.
What happened to the run-of-the-mill rain shower? If think weather in North Texas has gotten more tumultuous, you may be onto something.
Crews continue to search for survivors in Texas after deadly flooding over the holiday weekend that killed more than 100 people.
While Texas may feel far from the Northeast, the lessons from the Texas Hill Country disaster matter here, too, particularly as hurricane season ramps up and summer storms become more frequent.
A federally funded project at Rice University is trying to tackle that problem — but in just two counties so far.
The flooding came on the heels of an early and intense heat wave, with triple-digit temperatures gripping parts of the state as early as mid-May — nearly two months ahead of schedule. Temperatures soared as high as 113 degrees along the Texas-Mexico border, and June ended as the seventh-hottest month on record.
In parts of Chicago, flash flood alerts rang Tuesday, warning of dangerous conditions as cars were stranded and submerged on highways and water rescues were conducted, but how much rain actually fell across the region and how fast did it all happen?