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Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the at least 120 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.
It’s just nice to see how everyone’s coming together to help other people who are going through something tough,” said cheer team member Sierra Lemos.
President Donald Trump met with victims' families and surveyed the damage of catastrophic floods that struck the state one week ago.
The Buffalo News, a New York newspaper, has sparked fury online after a political cartoon appeared to mock victims of the flash floods in Texas. The cartoon depicted a drowning Trump supporter wearing a Make America Great Again cap. Newsweek has contacted The Buffalo News for comment via email.
From 1959 to 2019, 1,069 people died in Texas in flooding, which is nearly one-fifth of the total 5,724 flood fatalities in the Lower 48 states in that time, according to a 2021 study in the journal Water.
Online claim that Springsteen "stepped in" to help Texas flood victims is just the latest in a deluge of misinformation about relief efforts.
Flash flooding killed at least 80 people in Central Texas, and dozens are still missing. Here’s how you can help.
The Oscar-winning Hollywood actor, and famously native Texan, posted his message of support for the Hill Country flood victims on social media.