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Death toll at 129
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While the weekend will be mainly hot and humid, there is a daily chance for rain, too. Because the ground is so saturated from recent floods, we’ll have to monitor for isolated incidents of flooding, especially across the Hill Country.
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Where San Antonio's drought stands after floodsEven as the Hill Country was inundated during the deadly flooding, rain was more scarce closer to San Antonio, offering little relief to the city's multiyear drought. The big picture: San Antonio remains several years into its most intense drought in decades,
Linda Bason and Deana Hillock checked into the HTR campground on July 3 for a mother-daughter weekend. The next morning, the Kerrville camp was destroyed.
A threat of flash flooding remains from "slow-moving heavy rains overnight and through the day on Monday," the National Weather Service warned.
By SETH BORENSTEIN Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwater
Emlyn and Penny Jeffrey went to their cabin in Hunt with their grandchild, 11-year-old Bulverde Creek Elementary student Madelyn Jeffreys. They never came home.
A San Antonio nonprofit is working to get essential medical equipment to people affected by catastrophic flooding in Central Texas. Project MEND, also known as the Medical Equipment Network for those with Disabilities,
Mitchell, alongside a team of minds keeping the river authority operating, explained that many of these dams were a direct result of legislation passed in 1954, the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. That act led to the construction of over 2,000 dams across Texas.
Most of the 13 victims, the Bexar County Medical Examiner ruled, had drowned: Derwin Anderson, Victor Manuel Macias Castro, Roseann Cobb, Martha De La Torre Rangel, Rudy Garza, Stevie “Wayne” Richards, Andrew Sanchez and Carlos Valdez III.
LiftFund has launched its Hill Country Disaster Recovery Initiative. It is mobilizing more than $1.6 million in emergency funding to small businesses impacted by the catastrophic flooding in Kerr County and surrounding counties.
Shock has turned into grief across Texas where at least 120 people have died from flash floods and more were missing as the search for victims moved methodically along endless miles of rivers and rubble Thursday.
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