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.

Follow along for developments on the July Fourth floods along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County and Central Texas.

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The dammed reservoirs along the Guadalupe River near Kerrville are believed to have captured debris washed downstream.

A group of Kerrville Independent School District bus drivers went straight into danger to rescue the stranded children.

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.

Rainfall amounts of 1-2 inches and isolated amounts of 3-5 inches are possible, the National Weather Service said.

Explore three decades of Guadalupe River Basin flood data by county with our interactive, searchable database.

Two 8-year-old sisters from Dallas who had just completed 2nd grade. A beloved soccer coach and teacher. An Alabama elementary school student away from home.

Survivors have described the floods along the Guadalupe River as a “pitch black wall of death” and said they received no emergency warnings.

New flood warnings have been issued along the Guadalupe River in Texas less than two weeks after flooding killed more than 100 people.

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