Mayhem at the River Inn Crossing: A Dark-of-Night Flood Escape Along the Guadalupe River, a 60-room inn and nearby homes were quickly filling with water. Confusion, desperation and heroism ensued.

The surprising reasons floods and other disasters are deadlier at night It’s not just that it’s dark and people are asleep. Urban sprawl, confirmation bias, and other factors can play a role.

Camp leaders spent the night watching the river. In the wake of that flood, Camp Mystic’s owner, Dick Eastland, joined in an effort to install a new system of river gauges that could notify ...