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."

People gather outside St. Sebastian’s Catholic Church in Kentfield, Calif., on July 8, 2025, to pray for members of a Kentfield family missing in the Texas flood zone. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal)

Portraits of the victims and why the flood was so much worse than anyone expected — these are the top stories about the July 4 flood.

Camp officials at the Mo-Ranch Assembly summer camp acted quickly without warnings to evacuate 70 people from rising Guadalupe River waters.

I was a college student who didn’t want to return to an unstable home. So instead, I found a job as a lifeguard at a Christian summer camp in the Texas Hill Country.

Teens at the Pot O’ Gold Christian Camp near Comfort, Texas, were swamped by a wall of water as they tried to escape.

In Texas Monthly, Bekah McNeel recalls her own experience camping along the Guadalupe as a public respite from a hot state: “Since some 96 percent of Texas land is private property, access to a ...

Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly snapped at reporters questioned why the camps were not evacuated despite a "problem" warning from the Texas Department of Emergency Management

Bubble Inn saw generations of 8-year-olds enter as strangers and emerge as confident young ladies equipped with new skills from the great outdoors and lifelong friends – bonds that would one day prove vital in the face of unfathomable tragedy.