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The Texas Hill Country has been notorious for flash floods caused by the Guadalupe River. Here's why the area is called "Flash Flood Alley."
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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.
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Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo.
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.
Hill Country residents and volunteers on Tuesday continued picking up the pieces that the deadly waterway left behind days earlier.
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A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.
In other words, we keep playing a game of chance with forces indifferent to us—until we are finally reminded of the cost of losing.