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The difficult mission of search and recovery is happening in Texas for those swept away in disastrous flash floods on the 4th of July.
Eighty-two people are dead, mostly in Kerr County.
Others are missing.
The victims include children who were away at summer camp.
Houston Public Media's Dominic Anthony Walsh reports the community there is close-knit.
Kerr County is home to just over 50,000 people,
but the rolling hills draw visitors from across the state for camping,
hiking, and tubing on the Guadalupe River, especially on holidays.
Donnie Moser drove in from Houston on Wednesday.
By Friday, he was trapped in his Airbnb without food and water.
But local residents offered him shelter.
This is an incredibly, incredibly sad situation.
But the way people just kind of took us in and helped us and just made us part of their family is it's just amazing.
He says it reminds him of how residents in Houston come together after hurricanes.