Julian Ryan’s final words to his mother, as floodwaters quickly engulfed their trailer home, were simply, “I love you.”

More than an entire summer’s worth of rain fell in some spots in central Texas in just a few hours early on the Fourth of July, quickly overwhelming dry soils and creating significant flash flooding. Central Texas is currently home to some of the worst drought in the United States and bone-dry soils flood very quickly.

A beloved director of Texas summer camp for girls. An Alabama elementary student away from home. A woman found dead after an intensive search. These are a few of the dozens of victims lost in devastating flooding in Texas.

Texas forecasters issued a series of early-morning warnings about “life-threatening flooding” along the Guadalupe River.

Texan communities are dealing with the impact of the deadly flash floods along the Guadalupe River, which have killed at least 80 people so far, including 27 people (mostly children) from the all-girls Camp Mystic summer camp,

As searchers continue to look for victims in the deadly flash flooding in Texas, officials are answering questions about the weather forecasts ahead of and during the storm.