The Guadalupe River system has a number of dams, but they are downstream from Hunt, Texas. Many of these dams below Kerrville, Texas were built in the 1920’s and 1930’s, and they are in bad condition.

Cries for help came from the pitch-black woods, from rooftops and from attics that shifted unsteadily as the water rose. Firefighters and police raced to help, having little guidance on where or how.

Immigrant aid organizations in Central Texas worry that, amid an immigration crackdown, undocumented victims of the deadly ...