Linda Bason and Deana Hillock checked into the HTR campground on July 3 for a mother-daughter weekend. The next morning, the Kerrville camp was destroyed.

Even as the Hill Country was inundated during the deadly flooding, rain was more scarce closer to San Antonio, offering little relief to the city's multiyear drought. The big picture: San Antonio remains several years into its most intense drought in decades,

Mitchell, alongside a team of minds keeping the river authority operating, explained that many of these dams were a direct result of legislation passed in 1954, the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. That act led to the construction of over 2,000 dams across Texas.

An essential that may have been lost to flooding that might not immediately come to mind for many people is medical equipment.

The group's primary role supporting flood recovery efforts has been delivering food and other needed goods. But the organization is also tasked with getting some donations out of the Hill Country region.

Michael Karlis is a Staff Writer at the San Antonio Current. He is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., whose work has been featured in Salon, Alternet, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Orlando Weekly, NewsBreak, 420 Magazine and Mexico Travel Today. He reports primarily on breaking news, politics...

Life-threatening flash flooding was expected along creeks and streams, urban areas with poor drainage, highways, low-lying streets and underpasses.

Emlyn and Penny Jeffrey went to their cabin in Hunt with their grandchild, 11-year-old Bulverde Creek Elementary student Madelyn Jeffreys. They never came home.

LiftFund has launched its Hill Country Disaster Recovery Initiative. It is mobilizing more than $1.6 million in emergency funding to small businesses impacted by the catastrophic flooding in Kerr County and surrounding counties.

South San Antonio once again demonstrated its heart and resilience through the Texans Helping Texans flood relief effort.

In the picture above, you can see a child monitoring the water level, which nearly made it all the way to the attic of a family home in Hunt.“Cole said papa I t