A retired nurse, her son and a family friend say they were lucky to survive last week's flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people, including many summer campers.

Flash floods surged through in the middle of the night, but many local officials appeared unaware of the unfolding catastrophe, initially leaving people near the river on their own.

Officials are asking you to show up in appropriate clothing such as work boots, long-sleeved shirts, a hat and have several pairs of work gloves.

For the Fourth of July weekend, Aidan Heartfield took his girlfriend, Ella Cahill, their high school friend, Joyce Catherine Badon, and Cahill’s college roommate, Reese Manchaca, to his family’s home in Kerr County, the New York Times reported.

Abbott’s lengthy agenda for the Texas Legislature includes unfinished business, such as eliminating the STAAR test, and conservative priorities.

Kerr County officials say they are still focused mainly on the search for survivors with hundreds still missing and weren't yet examining how the emergency response unfolded.

HUNT, Texas — Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.