Over 100 people have died after heavy rain pounded Kerr County, Texas, early Friday, leading to "catastrophic" flooding, the sheriff said.

Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert the type of disaster that swept away dozens of youth campers and others in Kerr County,

Several Kerrville Independent School District teachers and staff members drove school buses full of hundreds of campers from Camp La Junta and Camp Mystic to reunification sites on July 4.

Before hundreds of first responders and volunteers from around the country came to help, it was the local residents of Texas Hill Country who faced down a deadly wall of water along the Gaudalope River and witnessed terrifying scenes.

In the wake of an unprecedented flood that swept through Camp Mystic in the early hours of July 4, a longtime camper and now program director has shared an emotional tribute about her "little slice of heaven.

Gov. Greg Abbott proclaimed Sunday a day of prayer, urging Texans to lift “the lives lost, those still missing, the recovery of our communities and the

The director of Camp Mystic was among the people killed due to the Hill Country floods, according to the Kerrville Daily Times.

The family was reportedly vacationing at a river house in Kerr County as the floods swept through the area unannounced.