Amanda Jones of Anderson was camping along the Guadalupe River near Kerrville with her husband, four children, and three dogs when storms began moving through the area late Thursday night. They arrived at their campsite on July 3 around 3 p.m. and had settled in by early evening, pitching their tent roughly 20 yards from a tributary of the river.

The minds and sympathies of Americans and many around the world are with the people of Texas this weekend. Heavy flooding has led to dozens of casualties as authorities work to assess the extent of the damage. Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman reacted to the ongoing devastation on ...