Flash Floods Kill at Least Two in Texas Hill Country, Send Rescuers Scrambling
The storms struck the same river devastated by last summer's flooding that killed two dozen children and counselors at Camp Mystic.
At least two people were killed and more than 200 were rescued after catastrophic flash floods tore through the Texas Hill Country region this week, Al Jazeera reported.
The National Weather Service said a large wave of floodwater barreled down the same river system Thursday that was wrecked by flash floods last summer, when two dozen children and counselors died at Camp Mystic, according to PBS NewsHour. The renewed flooding followed days of pounding rain across central and southern Texas.
PBS NewsHour's Thursday news wrap put the confirmed toll at at least one person killed in flooding affecting central and southern Texas, a figure that differs slightly from Al Jazeera's report of at least two dead — a discrepancy typical of the early, fast-moving hours of such disasters.
The floods reopened anguish in a region still grieving last year's tragedy, when Hill Country waterways surged with little warning and overwhelmed camps and homes. Local and state emergency crews were again dispatched Thursday to pull residents from swamped roads and homes as rescue operations continued.
— Compiled from reporting by Al Jazeera and PBS NewsHour.