After more than a foot of rain caused historic flash flooding across South Central Texas on the morning of July 4, conditions are expected to deteriorate once again heading into the weekend.

After catastrophic floods hit Texas' Hill Country, many are asking about preparations for the next big flood. Jason Allen spoke to Jay Banner, climatologist at University of Texas at Austin, on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

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.

The Houston Texans were the first to announce their donations on Saturday, July 5, with more coming throughout the week. The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL Foundation joined the Texans on Sunday, July 6, with each contributing $500,000 in a $1.5 million total donation.

DURANT, Okla. (KXII) - A Texoma funeral home is collecting items to take to central Texas next week. Along with cash and gift cards, Brown’s Funeral Home is accepting donations such as personal hygiene products and diapers, non-perishable food and items for clean up like trash bags and shovels.

July 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on Wednesday for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be eliminated in its current form, even as the disaster-relief agency deployed specialists and supplies to Texas to help respond to devastating floods.

His surviving family ... (is) doing everything they can to hold on to the last piece of their past that remains — Superman,” a shelter said.

Renee Smajstrla, a 8-year-old straight-A student from Ingram, Texas, who had played a role in her school’s production of “The Wizard of Oz,” was one of the victims who died in the flash floods at Camp Mystic, her family said.