Science and technology have made many hazards predictable in ways that were unthinkable 150 years ago. Tragedies, like the central Texas flash flood, can be averted or minimized when knowledge is ...

Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before ...

The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a ...

There will be a temptation to restore things just as they were, but the river has shown us we can never go back.

At least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods that saw the waters of the Guadalupe rise to historic ...

At least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods that saw the waters of the Guadalupe rise to historic ...

At least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods that saw the waters of the Guadalupe rise to historic ...

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had been considered part of a flood-hazard zone.

Located in a low-lying area along the Guadalupe River in a region known as flash flood alley, Camp Mystic lost at least 27 ...

That designation means an area is likely to be inundated during a 100-year flood — one severe enough that it only has a 1% ...