Beth and Hutch Bryan were visiting a family home in Hunt for the Fourth of July weekend when torrential downpours caused the nearby Guadalupe River to flood.

This part of Texas Hill Country is known for flash floods. Why were so many people caught off guard when the river turned ...

As I write this, there’s a desperate search for dozens of girls, missing from a flood where the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. More than 80 people drowned at the time I sent this column.