With 101 people still missing after the July 4 flash flood, the focus turns to local lakes, and what may be buried in them.

Residents of the Frio River community are expressing gratitude for recent rainfall that brought relief to the area, while also mourning the loss

New flood warnings have been issued along the Guadalupe River in Texas less than two weeks after flooding killed more than 100 people.

For the third straight day, thunderstorms have posed what meteorologists call life-threatening conditions in the Hill Country, where flooding earlier this month killed at least 131 people.

Rainfall amounts of 1-2 inches and isolated amounts of 3-5 inches are possible, the National Weather Service said.

The AquaEye device is currently being used in recovery operations in Kerr County. “It will scan the area of a football field in a minute and pinpoint the location of a victim,” said Loncaric. Loncaric says she created the device back in 2020 to help lifeguards and camps locate drowning victims.

In the survey — which sampled 1,680 U.S. adults — 52% of respondents said that most of the deaths could have been prevented if the government had been more adequately prepared. Twenty-nine percent said the deaths were unavoidable, and 19% said they didn’t know.

In the early days of July, pieces of weather systems were converging to create a disaster over Texas Hill Country that would transform the Guadalupe River into a monster raging out of its banks in the pre-dawn hours of July 4, claiming the lives of more than 129 people. At least 160 are still missing.

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.

It's not too early to ask what happened, why and who should be held accountable. But Republican officials in Texas and beyond would rather punt.