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Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county’s top official, said during a county commissioners court meeting earlier Monday that local officials don’t know the exact number of how many visitors who traveled to the Guadalupe for the holiday weekend had been caught in the flood.
A flood watch is in effect into July 15 for more than a dozen counties as saturated ground gets drenched again.
Texas Hill Country rivers rise as storms prompt new warnings along Frio, Guadalupe, Nueces, San Saba
For the third straight day, thunderstorms have posed what meteorologists call life-threatening conditions in the Hill Country, where flooding earlier this month killed at least 131 people.
As the water rises, so does the Kerr County community, especially one man who reunited a brother and sister, swept away in the flood.
A large percentage of people still unaccounted for were probably visiting the area, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said.
At least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods that saw the waters of the Guadalupe rise to historic levels in Central Texas, officials with Kerr County said Friday. Authorities have confirmed 103 deaths, 36 of whom are children.
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The Washington Post' obtained messages from a National Weather Service meteorologist warning Kerr County officials about potential flash flooding beginning at 1 a.m. on July 4