PinnedUpdated July 6, 2025, 6:54 p.m. ETForecasters on Sunday afternoon said more flash flooding was possible in areas of Central Texas where hundreds of emergency responders, desperate family members and volunteers raced to rescue survivors of the catastrophic deluge that killed at least 79 people, including 28 children.At least 41 people were still missing, officials said on Sunday, while 28 of those found dead had not yet been identified. Officials said that a fuller picture of the devastation was slowly emerging.Still, emergency officials and meteorologists urged people combing through wreckage in the Guadalupe River basin to heed warnings about more flooding as the day waned and rain continued to pour. Around 3 p.m. Central time, an emergency alert went out to people along the Guadalupe River, including the hundreds conducting searches, warning of “high confidence of river flooding” and urging people to move to higher ground.Among the areas bracing for more flooding on Sunday was one including Camp Mystic, a Christian girls’ summer camp near the river. Ten campers and one counselor remained missing on Sunday, according to Larry Leitha, the sheriff of Kerr County.At a news conference on Sunday afternoon, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said “it was nothing short of horrific” to see what had happened at Camp Mystic, adding that the authorities were fully dedicated to “searching for every single one of the children who were at Camp Mystic as well as anybody else in the entire river bed.”Here’s what else to know:Flash flood warnings: The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for eastern Burnet County, western Williamson County and northwestern Travis County that will last until 6 p.m. Central time. Another flash flood warning was in effect for southwestern Gillespie County and the northeastern corner of Kerr County, and was set to expire at 6:30 p.m. And a third flash flood warning was in effect for a swath that encompasses the area including the area where Camp Mystic flooded on Friday and expires at 7:30 p.m.Death toll: At least 68 of those killed in the floods, including at least 28 children, were in Kerr County, northwest of San Antonio. Elsewhere in Texas, four people were killed in Travis County, three in Burnet County, two in Kendall County, one in Tom Green County and one in Williamson County, the authorities said. At least 41 people were missing, Gov. Abbott said, though he cautioned that these were only people confirmed to be missing and the list could be much longer.The victims: As the death toll rose, investigators were trying to identify victims. Among them were 8-year-old and 9-year-old campers, and a 27-year-old man who died trying to save his family by punching a window through their trailer so they could escape the rising waters. Here’s what we know about some of them.Rescue efforts: Hundreds of people have been scrambling to rescue people clinging to trees and floating on furniture. As time goes on, the chances of finding survivors dwindle, and rescues become body recovery missions. Read more ›Accountability questions: Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were unfilled, prompting some experts to question whether staffing shortages made it harder for the agency to coordinate with local emergency managers as floodwaters rose. Read more ›July 6, 2025, 6:49 p.m. ETJeff Ramsey, his wife, Tanya, and their dog, Chloe.Credit...via Eric SteeleIt was the annual family trip for Jeff Ramsey, 63, and his wife, Tanya: a stay at a new spot near the Guadalupe River, in cabins farther than they had ever gone along the river during the Fourth of July holiday week. It was a beautiful place, Eric Steele, Tanya’s brother, said in an interview.But then Mr. Steele woke up to a frantic phone call from the pair, who had stayed the farthest away from the rest of the family. They were trapped, pleading and begging for help.“Jeff always knows what to do, and he’s asking me what to do: ‘Do I get out? Do I stay in? What do I do?’” Mr. Steele recounted, choking back tears. “They were begging me to save them, and I couldn’t do anything.”He drove as far as he could toward their campsite, walked through thigh-high water until he couldn’t go farther. On the phone, his sister and brother-in-law were praying together and asked him to tell their children that they loved them.“She screamed, and then the phone went dead,” he said. “That will be with me forever.”Neither Mr. Ramsey or his wife, Tanya, have been found; Mr. Steele, 32, and the rest of his family have spent the last few days scouring through debris. There was a particularly heartbreaking moment, Mr. Steele said, when they thought Mr. Ramsey’s body had been found and identified in the morgue, until a second look the next day proved that it was not him.“We still have hope, we’re still out there looking,” Mr. Steele said. They found Tanya’s phone, zippered safely in a windbreaker pocket. And they found the couple’s beloved whippet, Chloe, alive about four miles down the river.“Anything I ever needed, they were always there for me — they were kind of a light in this world,” Mr. Steele added. Tanya had survived a bout with breast cancer about a year ago, while Mr. Ramsey spent many weekends working with disabled veterans and emergency medical workers adapting to the loss of a limb or other injuries. “They really have a huge connection to so many people.”July 6, 2025, 6:48 p.m. ETJoe Chavarria searched through rubble at a campsite near where five of his family members disappeared when the Guadalupe River flooded in Texas.Credit...Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York TimesHailey Chavarria sat Sunday outside a church providing shelter for survivors of the Fourth of July flash flood, and for families like hers who had rushed to Kerrville, Texas, hoping and praying for loved ones they had lost touch with.For Ms. Chavarria, 28, a teacher from Austin, the wait has been agonizing. Five members of her family from Midland, Texas — her mother, her mother’s husband, an aunt, the aunt’s husband and a cousin — remained missing three days after a torrent of water smashed through their campsite along the Guadalupe River, where they had gathered for what was supposed to be a festive holiday camping trip.Hailey Chavarria’s aunt Tasha Ramos and Ms. Ramos’s husband, Joel Ramos, are among the missing.Credit...via Hailey ChavarriaMs. Chavarria’s cousin Kyndall Ramos is missing, too.Credit...via Hailey ChavarriaOnly one family member, a 22-year-old cousin, Devyn Smith, was found alive, desperately clinging to a tree. Her rescue was captured on video, a moment for celebration in days with few of them. She had been dragged downriver more than 15 miles, through three dams, past broken R.V.s and refrigerators, from 4 a.m. to about 10 a.m. on Friday.Ms. Smith remains hospitalized, Ms. Chavarria said, with staples in her head and “every inch of her body” scratched and battered.As for the others, “I’m just hoping that they are somewhere,” Ms. Chavarria said, “and even if it’s the worst-case scenario, it’s just something identified and found.”“If I dig too deep or consider the worst outcome, I’ll probably lose my mind,” she added, staring at an uneaten sandwich.Her family had settled in for the night Thursday, she said, snug in tents erected along the river. The flood that arrived before dawn hours later swamped their tents. They rushed to their vehicles to flee, but the merciless current caught up with them. One Chavarria family truck was found empty and mangled against a tree.Cody Crossland’s truck was found overturned near the campground where the family disappeared during the flood. Credit...Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York TimesBy Sunday, about a dozen relatives, including Ms. Chavarria’s father, Joe Chavarria, had arrived in Kerr County, armed with chain saws and axes to cut through the tangle of trees and jetsam in the last place their family members were seen. On Sunday afternoon, the family gathered outside Calvary Temple Church, where Ms. Chavarria tried her best to keep her older sister, Celeste Helms, 34, from falling apart.“We have been going from center to center, and no one can give us an answer,” Ms. Chavarria said. “I’m not blaming any of the people who work at these centers, because you can tell they want to help so bad, right? I think it’s just more of like, they weren’t, as a city or county, weren’t prepared for something like this.”“All I can do is stare at my phone,” she added.They are holding to hope, though.“My mom, she is a beast of a woman,” Ms. Helms said. “I just know she’s hanging out somewhere. She’s too strong.”Devyn Smith, the survivor, relayed to Ms. Chavarria the harrowing story. When they went to bed Thursday night, it had begun to drizzle. Around 4 a.m. Friday, the campers were awakened by the rain, Ms. Smith told Ms. Chavarria. They knew their lives were in danger. They had already tried to bolt for safety when their phones blared a flash flood alert.Ms. Chavarria’s mother, aunt and stepfather and a cousin climbed into their pickup as the waters raged. Some of them tried to warn a second group that had climbed into a smaller car on lower ground.“Get out of the car!” they yelled, according to Ms. Smith. That group climbed out through a sunroof as the flood surrounded their small vehicle.Then they were not heard of again. Rescuers found the gray truck hours later tilted to its side and smashed into a broken tree.Ms. Chavarria described her mother, Michelle Crossland, who recently celebrated her 50th birthday with a big bash, as a “wild lady,” and her husband of 17 years, Cody Crossland, in his mid-40s, as a rugged man who played in a band and was attending barber school. She said Mr. Crossland would have tried everything he could to stay alive.Ms. Chavarria’s mother, Michelle Crossland, and Ms. Crossland’s husband, Cody Crossland, are also missing.Credit...via Hailey Chavarria“All the survival instincts would kick in for him, and he would ground her, because I know she would have been so freaked out,” Ms. Chavarria said.The group often traveled together, visiting Las Vegas a few times a year, but this was the first time Ms. Chavarria knew of them camping in the Kerrville area.Ms. Chavarria’s sister, Ms. Helms, said her 12-year-old had initially planned to join the family. “Thank God he ended up not going. I can’t even imagine,” she said.The family members said that the search had sometimes been a frustrating exercise. There was no point person updating families on the identities of those found, alive or deceased. Ms. Chavarria has resorted to calling funeral homes.Ms. Chavarria, right, and her sister Celeste Helms have been waiting for updates at a shelter in Kerrville, Texas.Credit...Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York Times“Can you just tell me if my loved one is in there? That’s all I want to know. Even if they’re deceased,” she said she has pleaded in call after call.Another relative, Eric Sanchez, 53, from Midland, stood somberly next to the sisters.“I came down as soon as I heard they were missing,” Mr. Sanchez said. “We are just waiting for any news.”The parents of Ms. Smith, the rescued cousin, are still missing. But she is recovering, Ms. Chavarria said.“I don’t know how she survived,” she said, “if you are a believer, by the grace of God.”July 6, 2025, 6:15 p.m. ETAmy GraffAmy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team.The National Weather Service warned that thunderstorm activity could increase this afternoon across the area.Credit...Carter Johnston for The New York TimesThe chance for heavy rain and flooding in Texas Hill Country was not over on Sunday afternoon, as the National Weather Service issued more flash flood warnings and urged people along portions of the Guadalupe River to seek higher ground.The air overhead remained packed with moisture, and any thunderstorms that form could be accompanied by heavy rains, including in Kerr County and the Guadalupe River Basin, which has been devastated by deadly flash flooding.The Weather Service office for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas warned that thunderstorms could increase through the afternoon.“It’s just sort of beginning, so we’ll see what happens in the next couple of hours,” Bob Fogarty, a meteorologist with the Weather Service, said around 3 p.m.At 4:15 p.m. local time, rain was falling over Kerr County. More than two inches of rain was possible on Sunday in the basin.An inch or two of rain in three hours could cause the Guadalupe to flood again. “It’s just a question of where the rain falls,” Mr. Fogarty said.Just before 4 p.m., the Weather Service issued several flash-flood warnings for portions of Hill Country, including for Hunt and Ingram.“Move immediately to higher ground,” the agency said.A large portion of Hill Country, including Kerr County, also remained under a flood watch through 7 p.m. on Sunday. The Weather Service said additional rainfall could range from two to four inches, with pockets of up to 10 inches.A watch is a heads-up that conditions are favorable for flooding, while a warning is an order to take immediate action because flooding is expected to occur or is already happening.Thunderstorms are notoriously difficult to forecast accurately. Meteorologists can identify a large area where storms are likely, but pinpointing the time and location of a storm is a challenge.Mr. Fogarty compared predicting a thunderstorm to placing a pot of water on the stove and waiting for it to boil. “Now, try to pick out where the first bubble is going to form,” he said. “That’s what forecasting this is like.”The thunderstorms in Central Texas are forming in an atmosphere with unusually high moisture that has flowed in from the Gulf. Mr. Fogarty said that there was little wind and that the storms were moving slowly and dumping rain over localized areas for long periods of time.“We rely on weather models, and the models have not done a really good job with this whole event,” he said. “The atmosphere is unusually moist.”Troy Kimmel, a meteorologist and retired University of Texas at Austin professor, said that short-range models, which use supercomputers to forecast weather, were “worthless” in the weather event that began July 4. “There’s something unique about this system that made it difficult to forecast,” he added.The chance for heavy rain and flash flooding was expected to continue across portions of Hill Country on Monday, with drier weather likely on Tuesday, said David Roth, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center.A large body of research indicates that the heavy rain that is causing the deadly flooding in Texas is becoming more frequent and extreme because of climate change. Warm air holds more moisture than cool air, and as temperatures rise, storms can produce bigger downpours. When they meet with outdated infrastructure or inadequate warning systems on the ground, the results can be catastrophic.Raymond Zhong contributed reporting.July 6, 2025, 6:13 p.m. ETBrown said that one of the 11 people missing in Travis County was a teenage girl who was driving with her family when floodwaters swept away their vehicle. The rest of the family is safe, he said.July 6, 2025, 6:09 p.m. ETAfter surveying flood-hit areas along Sandy Creek and Cow Creek in northwestern Travis County by helicopter, Andy Brown, the county judge and emergency management director, said in an interview that he had seen the “astounding” power of rapidly rising waters. He spotted roughly a dozen vehicles buried and wrecked along creek banks, mobile homes that were destroyed, and at least one house that had been swept entirely off its foundation.Credit...Carter Johnston for The New York TimesJuly 6, 2025, 5:31 p.m. ETThe confirmed death toll of at least 79 people breaks down like this, according to local officials: 68 people, including 28 children, in Kerr County; four people in Travis County; three in Burnet County, two in Kendall County; one in Williamson County; and one in Tom Green County. Governor Abbott said on Sunday afternoon that at least 41 people remain missing.July 6, 2025, 5:20 p.m. ETA vehicle and debris following flooding from the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas.Credit...Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York TimesThreatened by more rain and potential flooding in an already soaked area, rescue crews on Sunday were maneuvering around piles of debris and through fast-moving water by the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, in a desperate effort to find more survivors.Thirteen miles to the east, the sound of grinding chain saws permeated the banks of the Guadalupe in Kerrville, where most of the known deaths occurred. Crews were just beginning to clear large trees that were toppled by rushing floodwaters.In one mangled tree that was still standing, a plastic kayak was lodged in the branches at least 15 feet above the ground.Emergency workers pulled a red car filled with mud and debris from a bank of the river in Kerrville. They peeled the broken windshield out and shoveled dirt out of the car, looking for what could have been the latest potential victim in the flooding that has devastated central Texas.More than a dozen curious onlookers stood around waiting to see if a body would be pulled out of the vehicle. One woman sat down along the river and wept.In this case, the car appeared to have contained only dirt — no passengers. It took more than a dozen people to pull the car from the river with a tow truck and search through the debris, one example of the mammoth mission now being undertaken by rescuers here. At one point, a crew arrived with the Jaws of Life, a powerful hydraulic spreader tool, to pry open the mud-caked doors of the vehicle.Near the red vehicle, a dead deer was on its back atop a pile of debris.Across the area, crews were working to clear debris from along the bank of the Guadalupe; one crew arrived with a dog, prepared to search for people if warranted. There were vehicles, dozens of felled trees, and fencing that had been set up for a Fourth of July celebration along the river. Some trees were nearly horizontal, a sign of the strength of the current of the river at the height of the flooding.July 6, 2025, 5:20 p.m. ETIt has started to rain again in Kerrville.July 6, 2025, 5:10 p.m. ETSeveral flash flood warnings have been issued by the National Weather Service for areas of the Hill Country. One is for eastern Burnet County, western Williamson County and northwestern Travis County and lasts until 6 p.m.; another is for the southwestern Gillespie County and northeastern corner of Kerr County, and expires at 6:30 p.m. A third covers the towns of Hunt and Ingram, including the area where the summer camp flooded on Friday, and runs through 7:30 p.m. “Move immediately to higher ground,” the agency said.July 6, 2025, 5:02 p.m. ETVideotranscriptbars0:00/1:40-0:00transcriptAt Least 79 People Killed in Texas Flash FloodsSeveral children and one counselor from a summer camp remained missing as rescue crews continued searching for survivors of the floods that devastated Central Texas.“At present, there is over 400 first responders from more than 20 agencies that are working in Kerr County. We have more than a dozen canines working in and near the river. More than 100 air, water and ground vehicles are in the field right now working on this search and rescue.” [cheering] “I never knew that it could do that. I’ve seen it come up a little bit. I’ve seen it cover over the hike and bike trail there, but I’ve never seen it come up any further than that.”Several children and one counselor from a summer camp remained missing as rescue crews continued searching for survivors of the floods that devastated Central Texas.CreditCredit...Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York TimesThey used helicopters and drones, arrived on horseback and in trucks, and searched from boats and golf carts. Sometimes, they muscled through brush and devastation on foot.Emergency responders, family members, bystanders and others have saved hundreds of people from the devastation of the flooding in Central Texas, holding onto hope as national crews extend their search-and-rescue operations into a third day.Many stories over the past 48 hours have been harrowing. A 22-year-old woman was rescued after clinging to a tree overnight. A young girl was found after floating on a mattress for hours. A mother and her 19-year-old son survived by clinging onto each other and a tree. Two young girls were found 27 feet off the ground in a tree near Comfort, Texas. A counselor at Camp Mystic helped evacuate her 14 young campers to safety.One man, Scott Ruskan, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, has been credited with saving 165 people. This was his first rescue operation, said Rachel Ault, a Coast Guard spokeswoman.There were 12 rescue helicopters, including ones from the National Guard and the Army, on site at Camp Mystic, the Christian summer camp for girls on the Guadalupe River that was devastated by flooding. Mr. Ruskan “was the main person on the scene triaging everyone,” Ms. Ault said.More than 850 people had been rescued as of Saturday night, and more than 1,700 people have been involved in the operations, officials said. Eleven girls from Camp Mystic remain unaccounted for.“We will be relentless in going after and assuring that we locate every single person who has been a victim of this flooding event,” Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said on Saturday at a news conference. “We are not going to stop today or tomorrow. We will stop when the job is completed.”Mr. Abbott also requested a federal disaster declaration, a move that would direct federal assistance to the affected area. President Trump granted the declaration on Sunday morning.Searches continued on Sunday even as forecasters warned of more rain and possible flash flooding.City officials in Kerrville, the seat of Kerr County, have urged people not to go out to conduct search-and-rescue operations and have asked people not to use personal drones over affected areas.July 6, 2025, 5:02 p.m. ETDalton Rice, the city manager of Kerrville, sidestepped question about the effectiveness of local emergency notification systems, telling reporters at a news conference in Kerr County that it was “not the time to speculate.” “There’s going to be a full review of this,“ Rice said.July 6, 2025, 4:11 p.m. ETGovernor Abbott said at a news conference that heavy rain over the next 24 to 48 hours in the Concho Valley and near Kerrville could cause more flash flooding. “If you’re in any of those areas, you need to realize you’re in an area that is already saturated with water,” he said.VideoCreditCredit...KVUE, via Associated PressJuly 6, 2025, 4:07 p.m. ETPhones across Kerrville just blared with an emergency alert saying there was “high confidence of river flooding” near the North Fork of the Guadalupe River, which flows through Hunt. “Move to higher ground,” the alert said.July 6, 2025, 4:02 p.m. ETGov. Greg Abbott of Texas said Sunday afternoon that some 41 people were missing from the flooding in Texas, adding that search and rescue efforts were still underway.July 6, 2025, 3:28 p.m. ETAs of Sunday afternoon, the confirmed death toll stood at 70, according to local officials. Here is how it breaks down geographically: 59 people in Kerr County; four in Travis County; three in Burnet County; two in Kendall County; one in Williamson County; and one in Tom Green County. At least 30 people in various counties are officially listed as missing, including 11 campers and a counselor from Camp Mystic.July 6, 2025, 3:20 p.m. ETAt 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, scattered thunderstorms were dumping rain north of Kerr County and slowly drifting southward, bringing a possible two inches or more of rain. “It’s hard to say if it’s going to get into Kerr County,” said Bob Fogarty, a National Weather Service meteorologist. “It might stay further west and stay away from the Guadalupe Basin.” If an inch or two of rain falls in a period of three hours, that could cause the Guadalupe River to flood again, he said: “It’s just a question of where the rain falls.”July 6, 2025, 3:16 p.m. ETThe grinding of chainsaws resonated along the banks of the Guadalupe River Sunday afternoon in Kerr County, where most of the known deaths have occurred. Crews were just beginning to clear large trees toppled by rushing floodwaters. In one mangled tree that was still standing, a plastic kayak was lodged in the branches at least 15 feet above ground.Credit...Jim Vondruska/Getty ImagesJuly 6, 2025, 3:14 p.m. ETMargarita BirnbaumReporting from Kerr County, TexasLinda Clanton, a retired schoolteacher who lives near Kerrville, said she had seen the hand-wringing about the lack of a flood alert system, but was not convinced that one would be practical. “You’d have to have sirens all over the place, and that’s a lot of money, and a lot of things to go wrong and a lot of technical problems.” she said. Noting that Camp Mystic was 15 miles up the river from town, she said, “We are all spread out in these hills and the trees.”July 6, 2025, 3:04 p.m. ETMud and debris left behind from flooding in Kerrville, Texas. Heavy rains after extended droughts often wash mud and debris downstream into lakes and reservoirs, affecting water quality.Credit...Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York TimesCanyon Lake, a major reservoir downstream from where the Guadalupe River flooded catastrophically on Friday, probably has enough capacity to contain the floodwaters and prevent any flooding lower in the river basin, a National Weather Service expert who tracks rivers in the region said on Sunday.Gregory Waller, a service coordination hydrologist with the agency’s West Gulf River Forecast Center, said that while Canyon Lake had risen sharply since Thursday, the water level around noon on Sunday — 888 feet — was well below the lake’s conservation pool level of 909 feet, the target for normal water storage.When needed, the lake can handle water as high as 934 feet, he said, so there was significant room for additional inflow.“This water will be stored,” Mr. Waller said. “There is still plenty of room for more water.”Canyon Lake and other reservoirs in the region fell to extremely low levels earlier this year because of a prolonged drought. As recently as July 1, parts of the state remained in “exceptional drought,” the most severe category tracked by the U.S. Drought Monitor, Mr. Waller said.“The area is so sensitive right now that any rainfall will generate runoff,” he said. “We’re monitoring conditions closely.”When heavy rain falls after extended dry periods, Mr. Waller said, the initial rush of new water often carries debris and sediment into the lake, temporarily affecting water clarity. Lake operators may close access to public areas temporarily to allow the water to settle and debris to be removed.“Most individuals who live around the lake understand that these bodies of water come with hazards, especially after major rain events,” Mr. Waller said. “While the increase in lake level was badly needed, there are always safety considerations that come with it.”Canyon Lake is used to supply drinking water and produce electricity, as well as for recreation.Though more rain and some heavy thunderstorms are expected through Tuesday, Mr. Waller said, the greatest risk for flash flooding now lies north of the Guadalupe River watershed, rather than in the area that drains into Canyon Lake.July 6, 2025, 2:59 p.m. ETMargarita BirnbaumReporting from Kerr County, TexasLouis Kocurek, a 65-year-old resident of Center Point, Texas, about 10 miles southeast of Kerrville, wondered what has come of the early flood warning devices that he could swear were installed in the area in the 1980s. He said the first emergency alert he got on his phone on Friday came in at 10:07 a.m., more than three hours after his son-in-law called to tell him a major flood had hit. By the time official notice came, “the roads were closed, no way to get out,” he said.July 6, 2025, 2:43 p.m. ETA group of men are working to remove debris and mud on top of a red vehicle along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerrville. Officials have arrived, and they believe there is at least one person inside.Credit...Jesus Jimenez/The New York TimesJuly 6, 2025, 2:40 p.m. ETThreatened by more rain in an already soaked area, rescue crews are maneuvering around piles of debris and through fast-moving water by the Guadalupe River in Hunt in a desperate effort to find more survivors. Whole areas have been flattened by the devastating floods.July 6, 2025, 2:29 p.m. ETSamuel Rocha IVReporting from Central TexasDaniel Leeschoen, who owned a wedding venue next to the Guadalupe River, said he awoke around 4 a.m. Friday to the sound of heavy rain and a flash flood alert on his phone. He glanced out the window to the river and shrugged. But within 20 minutes, he said, the river had risen to a level he had never seen in 23 years living in the Hill Country. In a panic, he roused the guests in his six cabins and got them safely to higher ground. All that is left of his venue now, he said, is a concrete bench.VideoCreditCredit...Samuel Rocha IV for The New York TimesJuly 6, 2025, 2:18 p.m. ETGeorge W. Bush, the former president and a former governor of Texas, said in a statement: “Laura and I are holding up our fellow Texans who are hurting. We are heartbroken by the loss of life and the agony so many are feeling.” His wife once worked as a counselor at Camp Mystic, according to Texas Monthly.July 6, 2025, 2:15 p.m. ETRobert Modgling, a 55-year-old plumber in Hunt, Texas, got to the despair of realizing a rescue effort had turned into a recovery. “We were looking for survivors all morning long,” he said of the mad scramble on July 4, adding, “There’s a handful of people that were rescued initially, and after that there just weren’t any. That part’s over.” Modgling said he was still grappling with having found the body of a girl of about 7 or 8 pinned to a tree on Friday morning, a sight he called “pretty horrible.” “I’ve got a daughter who’s about that age,” he said. The body was turned over to the police, and he never learned her name.July 6, 2025, 1:28 p.m. ETOne person has died and two people remain missing in Williamson County, officials said. Sheriff Matthew Lindemann said a resident found a body trapped under a vehicle near a county road after floodwaters receded.July 6, 2025, 1:19 p.m. ETSamuel Rocha IVReporting from Central TexasAlong Highway 39, which runs next to the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, signs of damage left behind by the floodwaters are everywhere. Chunks of asphalt pavement are scattered across grassy areas. Fences are blown off their posts. Clothes and debris from damaged homes cling to the branches of cypress trees.July 6, 2025, 12:22 p.m. ETThe death toll in Kendall County has risen to two as of Sunday morning, emergency management officials said, adding that search teams and cadaver dogs were still at work.July 6, 2025, 10:59 a.m. ETNazaneen GhaffarNazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team.Surveying the damage along the Guadalupe River on Saturday. The river surged to nearly 30 feet. Credit...Eric Vryn/Getty ImagesSeveral more inches of rain were expected on Sunday in areas of Central Texas devastated by flooding over the weekend, forecasters said. Up to four inches could fall, with isolated areas potentially receiving up to 10 inches through Monday, according to the National Weather Service.Jason Runyen, a meteorologist at the Weather Service’s office for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, said that while river levels across the region had receded, more rain could exacerbate flooding in the area. Flash flooding in the region killed more than 50 people over the weekend, with dozens more missing.“We’re kind of saturated now,” he said. “So any additional amounts, even if we don’t get up to 10 inches, could cause flooding.”The Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center placed a Level 2 out of 4 risk for flash floods over portions of North and Central Texas and the Hill Country through Monday afternoon.Further rounds of heavy rain were expected at the beginning of the week before drier conditions develop. “There’s still chances of daily precipitation in the forecast on Monday and Tuesday,” Mr. Runyen said. “It trends drier and warmer beyond Tuesday.”The flooding that began on Friday was triggered by a combination of a moist tropical air mass — the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry — and a slow-moving storm system, which together fueled powerful thunderstorms.Forecast risk of excessive rain for SundayRiskSomeModerateHighMr. Runyen said that the storms occurred in two separate waves: one Thursday night into Friday morning, and the other Friday night into Sunday morning.Ahead of the storms, the Weather Service issued a broad flood watch for parts of south-central Texas, including Kerr County, specifying the possibility of rainfall totals up to three inches and isolated amounts of five to seven inches. But for some areas, the actual totals far exceeded those projections.“Most areas were between five to 10 inches,” Mr. Runyen said. “But there was a little pocket of eight to 12 inches, that exceeded our values in our flood watch,” he added, referring to areas near the Guadalupe River where many people were killed.Texas officials appeared to blame the Weather Service for forecasts on Wednesday that underestimated the amount of rain that was coming. Former Weather Service officials have said that the forecasts were as good as could be expected, given the way the storms escalated and the remarkable levels of rainfall. Some experts questioned whether staffing shortages at the Weather Service also made it harder for the forecasting agency to coordinate with local emergency managers as floodwaters rose.In the early hours of Friday morning, a “particularly dangerous situation” warning was issued for Kerr County, highlighting communities along the Guadalupe River as high-risk areas. Rainfall estimates in this swath were for five to 10 inches.Other counties, such as Tom Green County, were also placed under similar warnings Friday morning as heavy rain fell.Later on Friday, another intense round of rain battered the region. A new flood watch was issued, including portions of the Hill Country, warning of isolated rainfall totals up to 10 inches. Again, this amount was exceeded. Up to 16 inches of rain fell in Kirby, southwest of Austin, from Friday into Saturday, Mr. Runyen said.The deluge caused rivers in the region to rise to major flood stages. The Guadalupe River reached 29.45 feet — its second highest level on record, surpassing the levels that led to the devastating flood of 1987 in the same area, according to the Weather Service.The actual river levels this weekend might have been even higher than recorded, however, according to Mr. Runyen, who said that the river gauge was “washed out” during the storm.“We think that may have been a record,” he said.Flooding also occurred north of Kerrville, in San Angelo, where a National Weather Service office had issued river flood warnings on Friday for all parts of the San Saba, Concho and Colorado rivers.A flash flood emergency was declared for the Llano River in Mason County early Friday afternoon due to rapid rise. The warning urged residents, “If you live along or near the river in this area, take action immediately as this is a life-threatening situation!” The San Gabriel River also experienced flooding.