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KENDALL COUNTY, Texas – Two weeks after the deadly Hill Country floods, search operations are moving down the Guadalupe River. “We’re walking every inch,” Brian Reilly, the fire chief of the Sisterdale Volunteer Fire Department, said. “We’ll continue with (the search) down the river as we move into another district.”
The Texas Hill Country has been notorious for flash floods caused by the Guadalupe River. Here's why the area is called "Flash Flood Alley."
A washed-out Guadalupe River appeared stuck in time nearly two weeks after the catastrophe. Large trees laid on their sides and remnants of debris lingered throughout what was left. Some residents of the area say it's unlike anything they've seen in the river before.
Texas flash flood wasn't the only deadly event in the Hill Country. Here's what happened 38 years ago along the Guadalupe River.
New flood warnings have been issued along the Guadalupe River in Texas less than two weeks after flooding killed more than 100 people.
The dammed reservoirs along the Guadalupe River near Kerrville are believed to have captured debris washed downstream.
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.
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.
Visitors to campgrounds along the Guadalupe River, such as the Rio Guadalupe Resort, may one day hear the blaring sound of sirens warning
Follow along for developments on the July Fourth floods along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County and Central Texas.
A group of Kerrville Independent School District bus drivers went straight into danger to rescue the stranded children.
The memorial in Conroe honored a 21-year-old former Miss Caney Creek who died with friends during a July 4 weekend gathering.