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First responders in storm-battered Texas are again rushing to people trapped in high waters after more heavy rain widened the danger from floods that have killed at least two people and left hundreds more in need of rescue.
More than 80 volunteers from the Central Texas Christian Disaster Relief Team are in Kerrville and Uvalde, providing hot meals, mobile showers, and laundry services to flood relief workers.
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The Guadalupe River can surge with astonishing speed during heavy rain.
A lack of sirens and flood forecasting systems made the state’s Hill Country vulnerable to deadly floods last summer. That has changed.
July 16 flooding damage to Kerrville has hit $55 million, but federal disaster relief is not triggered until that figure reaches $60 million, according to a high-ranking city official.
Floods surge in Texas Hill Country after huge rainstorms, as rescuers pull people from rising waters
The National Weather Service in San Antonio said a "large and deadly flood wave" was barreling down the same river wrecked by floods last summer when two dozen children and counselors were killed at Camp Mystic.
Rescuers were scouring a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris on Sunday in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors following a historic flash flood.
Matthew Zwolinski, a fire specialist with AFD, responded to both this and last year's catastrophic floods in central Texas as part of Texas A&M Task Force 1.
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Pedernales River topped its July 4 flood peak in hours. See how Central Texas rivers compared
Data shows how the Pedernales and Llano rivers surged during Central Texas flooding on July 16.