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How a memorial could honor victims of the Texas floods
For grieving communities, the kinds of public memorials familiar from history — stone cenotaphs, bronze monuments and statues ...
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Texas Floods: 170 Still Missing as Crews Battle One Last Day of Heavy Rain!
Search and rescue teams in Texas are pushing through one final day of heavy rain as they search for over 170 people still missing after the devastating July Fourth weekend floods. With at least 129 ...
Weather Modification Played No Role in Texas Floods
Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social ...
Firefighter volunteers from Mexico crossed border to help Texas flood victims: ‘This was a mission to come and help our brothers’
Fundación 911, a nonprofit that provides equipment and training to fire departments across Mexico, sent a crew of 40 members ...
Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.
After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what ...
Why FEMA’s flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood risks
Even in areas that are mapped, like the Camp Mystic site in Kerr County, Texas, that was hit by a deadly flash flood on July ...
Brentwood woman raises $26K in 24 hours for cousin, other Texas flood victims
Heartache is widespread in the aftermath of violent flash flooding throughout the Texas hill country over the July 4 weekend. It reaches Tennessee, where the loved ones of Claire "Reese" Manchaca ...
Investigating claims Kerr County rejected Biden admin's $10M offer to improve flood warning systems
After flash floods swept through central Texas in July 2025, people online searched for reasons why the disaster was so ...