Trump surveys Texas flood damage. Live updates
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Emergency response questioned in Texas floods
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President Trump has not talked about eliminating FEMA as the emergency response agency helps with recovery efforts from the Texas floods.
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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.
Aaron Parsley, a senior editor at 'Texas Monthly' and former longtime staffer at PEOPLE, recalled being plunged into floodwaters with family members during the deadly storm in Texas on the Fourth of July.
With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a wellspring and a looming menace.
Officials in Kerr County, where the majority of the deaths from the July 4 flash floods occurred, have yet to detail what actions they took in the early hours of the disaster.
The organizations working together to help the flood victims said that 'no additional in-kind donations (clothing, food, supplies) are needed in Kerrville.' They said the best way to help is with monetary donations.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNGod and the Guadalupe long reigned over Texas Hill Country. Now grief permeates.Religion and the river are constant Kerr County touchstones. As residents lean on their faith, they grapple with their relationship to the water.
At least 120 people have been found dead since heavy rainfall overwhelmed the river and flowed through homes and youth camps in the early morning hours of July 4. Ninety-six of those killed were in the hardest-hit county in central Texas, Kerr County, where the toll includes at least 36 children.