Overview

• About 130 fatalities have been confirmed and many remain missing as recovery teams continue searching the flood zone.
• National authorities triggered the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System shortly before 2 a.m., hours after local SMS warnings were issued.
• President Trump visited Kerr County on July 11 and defended local officials’ response, rejecting critiques of delayed alerts.
• Harrowing accounts from survivors describe families stranded on rooftops as furniture and vehicles swept past in the darkness.
• Weather services have issued new flash-flood warnings through Sunday evening as heavy rains threaten further rises in the Guadalupe River.