Overview

• Local and volunteer search-and-recovery operations in Kerr County have confirmed more than 104 deaths with dozens of residents still missing
• TEXSAR has mobilized roughly 50 volunteers and six swift-water rescue boats along the Guadalupe River to locate and recover victims
• Jonathan McComb, who survived the 2015 Wimberley flood that claimed his wife and two children, has joined the current effort drawing on his prior mission experience
• Federal and state officials have opened inquiries into flood warning gaps and are weighing proposals for new siren networks and river-level monitoring stations
• Central Texas’s position in “Flash Flood Alley” and increasing extreme rainfall underscore calls for improved alert systems and infrastructure to prevent future tragedies