Camp staff went to bed following what seemed like routine flood warnings. Within hours, they were fighting for survival. “Chaos struck almost instantaneously.”

T ime-lapse footage and images shared online show rivers rising rapidly in Texas amid heavy flooding that has resulted in the deaths of more than 80 people. The devastating floods that struck central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend have become one of the deadliest flood events in the U.

The heavy rain that turned a river in Texas into a raging wall of water was fueled by unique atmospheric conditions, according to meteorologists and climate scientists.

As Central Texas mourns the lives lost during catastrophic flash floods over the Fourth of July weekend, experts are working to quash a surge of misinformation blaming weather modification for the disaster.

As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy – both in the decades leading up to the disaster,