Heavy rain poured over the Texas Hill Country on Independence Day, with the flooding causing more than 100 deaths. Here's a timeline of the disaster: On July 2, the Texas Division of Emergency Management said it activated "state emergency response resources in anticipation of increased threats of flooding in parts of West and Central Texas heading into the holiday weekend.

The first weather emergency alert sent by the National Weather Service with urgent language instructing people to "seek higher ground now" was sent at 4:03 a.m. local time.

HUNT, Texas (AP) — Crews used backhoes and their bare hands Wednesday to dig through piles of debris that stretched for miles in the search for more than 160 people believed to be missing in the flash floods that laid waste to state’s Hill Country.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz calls flooding aftermath 'most horrible thing I've ever seen' Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called the flooding aftermath at Texas' Camp Mystic -- where at least 27 campers and counselors died amid flooding -- "the most horrible thing I've ever seen.

In what experts call "Flash Flood Alley," the terrain reacts quickly to rainfall steep slopes, rocky ground, and narrow riverbeds leave little time for warning.

One of Texas' most popular rivers flooded over the weekend and contributed to Texas' catastrophic flooding that claimed over 80 lives, including two dozen children at Camp Mystic. Here's what to know about the layout of the river and the role it played in one of the state's deadliest flash floods in modern history.

Virginia first ;ady Suzanne Youngkin was among members of the governor's family who were rescued over the Fourth of July weekend, Youngkin said.

Jenna Bush Hager revealed that she dropped her daughters Mila and Poppy off at a Texas sleepaway camp over the weekend. ‘The only other explanation that I can think of, again, maybe you’ve got another,