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Malaya Grace Hammond is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Hammond's family said she was swept away by floodwaters on Saturday in Travis County.
As tears streamed down their faces, community members looked at the photos attached to a growing memorial wall.
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Hammond got his window down and he and his wife escaped through the front of the car. Malaya had the harder task of getting the minivan’s back door open as the water quickly rose, her father said. “Miraculously, she got it open in time," he said, and Malaya helped her siblings and the friend escape, sending them all into the rushing waters.
Officials in Kerr County, where the majority of the deaths from the July 4 flash floods occurred, have yet to detail what actions they took in the early hours of the disaster.
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Eight-year-old girls at sleep-away camp, families crammed into recreational vehicles, local residents traveling to or from work. These are some of the victims.
Trinity University has announced that Kellyanne Lytal, the daughter of OC Wade Lytal, died in the Texas floods.
Communities in rural parts of Vermont on Friday woke up once again to damaged homes and washed-out roads due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding, making it the third consecutive summer that severe floods have inundated parts of the state.
Two months after devastating floods in Western Maryland, towns like Westernport are rebuilding, but many residents still face severe damage, financial hardship and lingering trauma.
Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.
Our response to floods has been inadequate, if not misdirected. And now, owing to the heating climate, floods will be growing irrevocably worse, more widespread and longer in duration. We’ve failed to halt the losses and the threats of the past. Lacking a major course correction, we’re destined to fail worse in the future.