A grief-stricken Texas is asking whether meteorologists and local officials did enough to prevent flood devastation.

Summer camp in the flood-prone Hill Country has long been a rite of passage for young people from Texas and beyond.

One local summer camp in the path of the disastrous flooding in central Texas was able to avoid any loss of life by closely monitoring weather reports

Professional sports teams from Texas issued statements after a flood on the Guadalupe River killed at least 27 people on Friday.

Local officials warned the number of dead will likely rise and were due to give an update on Sunday morning, as search and rescue teams raced to find 27 girls missing from a camp near the Guadalupe River,

Rescuers were searching for more than two dozen girls missing from a summer camp in Texas after a catastrophic flash flood killed at least 43 people, 15 of them children. The Guadalupe River that runs through the Hill Country in central south Texas rose by 26ft (8 metres) in just 45 minutes in the early hours of Friday,