Deadly flooding devastates central Texas
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Heavy rains fell quickly in the predawn hours of Friday in the Texas Hill Country, causing the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes.
HOUSTON — The Texas Hill Country is still reeling after deadly flooding left behind a trail of destruction and heartbreak. Lives were lost and forever changed by a single storm. Scientists are now warning this disaster was made worse by climate change and are sounding the alarm about what it means for the future of Texas.
Some people online suggested cloud seeding conducted by the company Rainmaker Technology Corporation was to blame for deadly flooding in Texas.
Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.
A tie with dozens of initials on it memorialized the tragedy at Camp Mystic. More on Michael Taaffe's touching gesture.
This is false. It is not possible that cloud seeding generated the floods, according to experts, as the process can only produce limited precipitation using clouds that already exist.
A Texas man tried saving people at the RV park he owns during the Texas flood disaster nearly two weeks ago, but watched many people — including a family of four — slip away.
While looking into Birmingham, Alabama, chief meteorologist James Spann ‘s new weather network, we saw that he felt compelled to get on social media recently to explain away conspiracy theories surrounding the deadly Texas floods that killed more than 100 people earlier this month.
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AccuWeather on MSNDeath toll climbs to 120 in Texas floods as search continues for 170 missingCamp Mystic was one of many areas in central Texas that were struck by catastrophic flooding, with search and rescue operations still underway. A Major Disaster Declaration has been issued.
Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social media. It is not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
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KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Rescue crews in Texas kept a wary eye on river levels Monday, hoping to resume the search for people still missing from catastrophic flooding that pummeled the central part of the state earlier this month and killed at least 132 people.