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Today is the fifth day since catastrophic flash flooding swept through Texas.
The number of lives lost has surpassed 100.
Dan Katz from Texas Public Radio reports most of the victims were in the city of Kerrville.
Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring says he's grateful for the help that's been offered from around the world
since the catastrophic July 4th flood.
He encourages people who want to volunteer for search and rescue efforts to first register with the Salvation Army.
We need focused and coordinated volunteers,
not random people just showing up and doing what they do.
We need to work together.
The massive search and rescue effort for the missing continues.
For NPR News, I'm Dan Katz.
Questions are intensifying over how officials reacted to weather alerts,
forecasting the possibility of flash flooding and the lack of an early warning siren system.
Texas' Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick told Fox News Monday the state would pay for a system in Kerrville by next summer