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,

Two days before flash floods on the Guadalupe River in Texas killed dozens of campers at a Christian girls summer camp, a state inspector approved operations, noting there was a written plan for responding to natural disasters.

Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo.

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 death toll in the central Texas flooding is up to 119 people, 95 of them in Kerr County, including 36 children.

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

The Associated Press has assembled an approximate timeline of the 48 hours before, during and after the deadly flash flood, beginning with the activation of the state’s emergency response resources on July 2 — the same day Texas signed off on the camp’s emergency plan for disasters.

In other words, we keep playing a game of chance with forces indifferent to us—until we are finally reminded of the cost of losing.