Lawmakers serving on special committees investigating deadly floods blasted a river authority for failing to build a flood warning system on the Guadalupe River.

More than $80 million has been raised for Hill Country flood victims through two major funds, the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country and GoFundMe.

Pastor Mike Park of the New Covenant Church in Gregg County recently delivered donated supplies to the Kerrville area, and he says the “game has changed” in the flood-stricken area.

Gary, DeeAnn, Jake and Megan all lost their lives. Harley is still among the missing. Both families lived in Canyon Lake but have ties to the Houston and Mont Belvieu areas. Hutch and Beth Bryan, formerly of Houston, died in the Texas Hill Country flooding.

Lawmakers in Austin held the first of a series of hearings on Wednesday to prevent a disaster like the Hill Country flooding from happening again.

People awoke from water rushing around them during the early morning hours of July 4, all along the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country. Residents were seemingly caught off guard, but warnings had been issued days and hours before floodwaters began carrying away homes,

Brian and Ann-Tyler Konradi, founders of The Yurtopian, are raffling off their 46-acre glamping retreat in Dripping Springs for just $10 a ticket.

Texas legislators on Wednesday lambasted a local river authority for a decision last year not to move ahead with pursuing a flood warning system

One of them was Christian Fell of Fort Worth. Water had rushed in his family's vacation home, and now he was trying to reach the roof to escape the surging river. He would wait hours, unaware of the catastrophic flooding that would kill 107 people.