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.

The Guadalupe River has a history of deadly flooding. Here is a look over the decades. (AP video Marshall Ritzel/Albee Zhang)

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.

Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert the type of disaster that swept away dozens of youth campers and others in Kerr County,

The psychological toll of recovering the bodies of flood victims in Texas is drawing increased attention as the death toll grows.

At least 173 people are still missing in Central Texas, with the governor warning that ‘there could be more added to that list’

The death toll continues to rise following the devastating floods in Texas this weekend. Newly released images capture the destruction caused by the overflowing Guadalupe River and the community's profound mourning for those lost.