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Randy Schaffer met wife Mollie in 1967. They’d been together ever since. In the end, only the Guadalupe River's raging waters could separate them.
Nearly a week after deadly floods struck Central Texas, search and rescue teams are continuing to probe debris for those still missing.
Flash floods surged through in the middle of the night, but many local officials appeared unaware of the unfolding catastrophe, initially leaving people near the river on their own.
With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a wellspring and a looming menace.
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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.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNAs Guadalupe River flows calm, evidence of its destructive force remainsHill Country residents and volunteers on Tuesday continued picking up the pieces that the deadly waterway left behind days earlier.
It took just 90 minutes for the river to rise more than 30 feet. A look at the historic flood levels now etched into Central Texas history.
Without a modern flood warning system, emergency officials monitor four sensors along the Guadalupe River – including one that was knocked out in the flood.