Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water weighing as much as the Empire State building downstream roughly every minute it remained at its crest. The force of floodwater is often more powerful and surprising than people imagine.

The Virginia governor said his family was saved by swift water rescue crews during the flooding in Texas last week.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin says his family were among those saved from the catastrophic flooding in Texas over the weekend which killed over 100 people. Youngkin said that his wife, Suzanne, and other unnamed family members were stranded at a property near the Guadalupe River when the disaster happened.