FEMA records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show that Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System to send warnings with safety instructions to all mobile phones in the affected area during critical hours as the flooding began on July 4.

Kerr County, Texas, could again see heavy rain and flooding this weekend, only a week after thunderstorms unleashed deadly flash flooding there and in central parts of the state.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the y...

“It’s hard not to feel like you are surrounded by a higher power when you’re down there, because it’s just so beautiful,” my friend Olivia Marrus told me.

Camp Mystic, which largely sits in a flood-prone area, lost 27 campers and counselors in the disaster.