Plans to develop a flood monitoring system in the Texas county hit hardest by deadly floods were scheduled to begin only a few weeks later.

As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of Comfort — a last-ditch warning to get out for those who had missed cellphone alerts and firefighters going street-to-street telling people to get out.

The flash flood that ripped through Guadalupe River area Friday has left nearly 100 dead in Kerr County. On Tuesday, 161 people were listed as unaccounted for in Kerr County, Texas Gov. Greg ...

The most powerful thing that I can do, is come up here and intercede with prayer for these families, that are hurting beyond what anyone can ever imagine."

Over 100 bodies have been recovered, but the large number of missing suggested that the full extent of the catastrophe was still unclear five days after the disaster.

A retired nurse, her son and a family friend say they were lucky to survive last week's flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people, including many summer campers

Officials have confirmed 119 dead and 160 still missing after a flash flood swept areas of Kerr County, Texas, on Friday. Torrential rains lashed the area, dropping more than 30 centimetres of rain in less than an hour and swelling the Guadalupe River to a height of nearly nine metres.

More than 160 people still are believed to be missing and at least 115 have died in the floods that laid waste to the Hill Country region of Texas. The large number of missing sug