Disastrous flash floods from a raging central Texas river have killed at least 51 people, a total that may increase

The monstrous, swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of Texas killing at least 27 people and leaving many more missing, was a flash flood, the nation’s top storm-related killer

Growing up near the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, could sometimes feel like living near a volcano. I was born two blocks away from the gorgeous river that flows from the Hill Country to the Gulf of Mexico, just one year before the devastating and deadly 1987 flash flood, often described around town as the “big one.”