Cries for help came from the pitch-black woods, from rooftops and from attics that shifted unsteadily as the water rose.

Jim McIngvale, better known as "Mattress Mack" and Gallery Furniture gave away 400 mattresses to families who lost everything in the July Fourth floods.

The Associated Press has assembled a chronology of chaotic rescue efforts as a flash flood barreled through the Hill Country of Central Texas before dawn July 4.

Young entrepreneurs in the Coastal Bend donated Lemonade Day earnings to support families affected by Hill Country floods.

After watching Kerr County officials grilled, Bexar County leaders are moving swiftly to add rain gauges and automatic flood gates.