Texas floods

(Newser) - Time and weather forecasts brought even more urgency to the increasingly desperate search for survivors from the Texas flooding on Sunday. Officials said the death toll had reached 70, while 11 girls and a counselor from a summer camp on the Guadalupe River remained among the missing, the New York ...

(Newser) - Before heading to bed before the Fourth of July holiday, Christopher Flowers checked the weather while staying at a friend's house along the Guadalupe River. Nothing in the forecast alarmed him. Hours later, he was rushing to safety: He woke up in darkness to electrical sockets popping and ankle-deep...