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What Happened? How the first 48 hours of the Texas floods unfolded
The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes on the morning of July 4th, leading to devastation and more than 100 deaths ...
New report on Kristi Noem’s 3-day delay of Texas flood rescue
According to a new report Secretary Noem did not sign off on deploying FEMA’s urban search and rescue team to Texas until ...
'Send help or not, I have work to do': Texas man rescues family from catastrophic flood
During Texas's second-worst flood, Matthew Crowder ignored dispatch warnings to save a family. Now the community rallies to ...
Drone pilot navigates chaos to aid rescue teams in Central Texas flood aftermath
Hovering above the debris-strewn Guadalupe River, drone pilot Jordy Marks scans the flood-ravaged landscape with a quiet ...
Search-and-rescue volunteers had to rely on sense of smell to find bodies in Texas flood debris, one reveals
Volunteers combing through debris piles from the devastating Central Texas flooding had to sniff out decaying bodies in the ...
FEMA’s response to Texas flood slowed by Noem’s cost controls
As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
In a flash flood, it's "very difficult to combat nature," rescue experts say
Recent flash flooding in Texas​, New Mexico​ and North Carolina​ is highlighting the extreme danger of these natural ...