Texas, Flash Flood and Guadalupe River
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Multiple parts of Central Texas, including Kerr County, were shocked by flash floods Friday when the Guadalupe River and others rose rapidly.
More than 111 people have died across six counties after flash flooding from heavy rain began affecting the state last week.
Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo.
More than 100 people have been confirmed dead since July 4, when the Guadalupe River in central Texas swelled overnight and triggered flash floods that swept through an area known locally as “Flash Flood Alley.
With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a wellspring and a looming menace.
At least 161 people were missing from Kerr County alone, officials said. Several children were among the missing.
Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s emergency plan just two days before devastating floods killed over 27 people, mostly children, at the Texas summer camp
A seventh Camp Mystic girl from Dallas has died in the devastating Central Texas flood, family members confirmed on Wednesday. Virginia Wynne Naylor, 8, was at Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp with cabins along the river in a rural part of Kerr County,