Texas Governor Greg Abbott visited the Sandy Creek Bridge in Leander on Monday to survey flood damage and meet with locals, volunteers and first responders.

“We remain unrelenting in our 24/7 operation to save and protect lives,” he tweeted. “Texas is a community. We are Texas strong.”

A temporary low-water crossing has been installed over Big Sandy Creek after flooding destroyed the community’s only bridge, cutting off access to around 200 homes

Up to two inches of rain an hour continues to douse portions of the Rio Grande Plains and Southern Edwards Plateau, with flash flood warnings extended until 8.30 a.m.

A broad swath of South Central Texas remains under flash flood warnings early this morning as torrential downpours persist across the region.

The alerts are currently in place for Dimmit, Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Uvalde, and Zavala counties, where the National Weather Center warns of potentially “life threatening” flash flooding.

Doppler radar suggests that some counties could experience up to four inches of rainfall in an hour.

Texas Governor Gregg Abbott said that at least 131 people have been killed by the July 4 flash floods that tore through the Hill Country.

The number of people missing statewide, he said, had fallen to 97, a significant reduction from the 173 unaccounted for that he announced almost a week ago.

A memorial wall in Central Texas includes children’s toys as dozens of victims from the July 4 flash floods were kids.

The director of Camp Mystic waited more than an hour after receiving a life-threatening flood alert before beginning to evacuate campers asleep in their cabins, his family confirmed through a spokesman.

Executive Director Richard “Dick” Eastland, 70, along with his wife, had been in charge of the beloved all-girls Christian summer camp in Hunt, Texas, since the 1980s.

It’s located directly in the flood zone. But when the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Kerr County at 1:14 a.m. on July 4, warning of “life-threatening flash flooding” near the Guadalupe River, little direction was given by the leadership of the camp.

Eastland did not order evacuations until 2:30 a.m., by which time torrential rains were already falling and the river was rapidly rising, according to family spokesman Jeff Carr, as reported by The Washington Post.

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The Texas Department of Public Safety shared photos on X of special agents conducting search operations along the North Fork of the Guadalupe River after it burst its banks on July 4.

At least 131 have been killed by the floods, and 101 are still missing, according to Governor Greg Abbott.