Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.

The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.

Scattered thunderstorms are ongoing this evening for parts of North Texas. This activity is expected to continue overnight and throughout Sunday. While not a washout for the area, where storms do set up, they are carrying abundant moisture, leading to rain rates as high as 2" per hour in some spots.

Key positions at National Weather Service offices across Texas are vacant, sowing doubt over the state’s ability to respond to natural disasters as rescuers comb through the flood-ravaged Hill Country.

Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said

Search crews continued the grueling task of recovering the missing as more potential flash flooding threatened Texas Hill Country.

Shock has turned into grief across Texas where at least 120 people died from flash floods and more were missing as the search for victim