Cindy Manley was a summer camp counselor in 1987 when a different devastating flood scarred the Texas Hill Country. The Heart O’ the Hills camp is on the Guadalupe River, where a massive search continues for more than 160 people who are believed to still be missing after catastrophic flooding over the July Fourth holiday.

Two tropical storms have led to deadly inland flooding in the United States already this season, underscoring how dangerous water can be.

Officials in Texas Hill Country are starting to focus on alert systems like the one in Comfort as they search for answers on how the flash flooding swept away so many in Kerrville.