though where it occurs and whether it causes catastrophic flooding is largely a matter of chance, according to experts.

Search and rescue operations in central Texas entered their fifth day on Tuesday after heavy rainfall overwhelmed the ...

Few myths are more pervasive in American life than the notion of Texas as a bastion of “ rugged individualism ” — the idea born of lonesome cowboys and wildcat oil drillers that the Lone Star State is ...

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend has surpassed 100. The number of deaths ...

Kerr County, Texas, is currently in a local state of disaster due to extreme, life-threatening flooding. Officials continue to give updates, search and rescue, and more.

More than 100 people have died in devastating flash floods in Kerr County, Texas. But what caused this extreme weather, and will events like this get more common?

Fifteen minutes north of the devastation at Kerr County's Camp Mystic, all 380 campers and counselors escaped floodwaters at ...

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas dimmed Tuesday, a day after the death ...

When storms roll in, water rushes downhill fast, gaining speed and force as it moves — often with deadly results.

Tuesday marks five days since flash floods in Central Texas that killed more than 100 people. As survivors begin recovery efforts, state and local emergency responders continue to search for ...

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Local officials had known for years of the kind of catastrophe that could hit the area known as “flash flood alley.” ...