Texas flooding latest: 43 dead, including 15 children, as search for some two dozen girls continues - as it happened  —  Girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River, are still missing, says city manager.  This blog is now closed.  —  Closing summary

Here's a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods  —  In the early hours of Friday, floods swept across Texas Hill Country.  The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes, according to state officials.  —  The flooding killed at least 14 children and 18 adults, officials said at a press conference on Saturday afternoon.

Live Updates: More Than 50 Dead in Texas Floods as Search for Missing Grows Dire  —  At least 15 children were among those killed by flooding in Central Texas.  Some two dozen girls from a camp on the Guadalupe River remained unaccounted for.  —  Hunt, Texas  —  Hunt, Texas  —  Ingram, Texas Ingram, Texas

Texas officials face scrutiny over response to catastrophic and deadly flooding … The destructive fast-moving waters that began before sunrise Friday in the Texas Hill Country killed at least 43 people in Kerr County, authorities said Saturday, and an unknown number of people remained missing.

In Texas region prone to catastrophic floods, questions grow about lack of warning  —  Water rose fast along the Guadalupe River, causing more than two dozen deaths.  Local officials said they couldn't have seen it coming.  —  The forecast began to look ominous in Texas Hill County on Thursday afternoon.

The NWS apparently did its job  —  I can understand the temptation to blame DOGE for the horrible consequences of the Guadalupe River flood, but leaving aside that this would almost certainly be counterproductive (the Republican response to bureaucratic failure is to see it as a pretext for further cuts) it also appears to be false: