As the water rises, so does the Kerr County community, especially one man who reunited a brother and sister, swept away in the flood.

Members of a search and rescue team embrace as they visit a memorial wall for flood victims, Sunday, July 13, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas. SAN ANTONIO — Search and rescue efforts resume for an eleventh day as specific crews continue to look for the 161 missing after the catastrophic Fourth of July floods.

An inch to 2 inches of rainfall has already been recorded this morning across the warning area, and an additional inch to 2 inches is possible.

The questions about a flood warning system before the deadly Central Texas floods continue. Some are shining the spotlight on a 2021 public meeting where county leaders debated whether to take $10 million from the Biden Administration, but what people are saying online and what actually happened are not the same.

In the wake of this tragedy, many Texans have generously stepped up to give back to Kerr County and the surrounding areas in various ways, including physical donations, volunteering and monetary contributions.

The Office of Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he was “taking action” Monday investigating an “unverified GoFundMe campaign” raising money for Independence Day flood relief, but the campaign

In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.

The City of Fort Worth is remembering the lives lost and the families forever impacted by the devastating floods in Central Texas . Mayor Mattie Parker said she personally knows a handful of families impacted. "Families that had kiddos there at both Camp Mystic and La Junta, and we're all grieving for our Texans," she said.

Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have prevented loss of life on July 4?

Forecasters explained that two mesoscale convection vortexes — one near Waco, and one near the Rio Grande — pulled in storm cells and placed them in circling patterns over the same areas, unleashing more dangerous floodwaters.