The toll of the Hill Country floods is unimaginable. More than 100 people are dead, and many dozens more are still missing. There have been nearly a thousand rescue operations by boat and helicopter. People have been rescued from rooftops or pulled through holes broken into attics, while others were found clinging to trees as brownish-gray water rushed just feet below them. Hundreds of first responders from dozens of agencies worked double or triple or quadruple shifts to search hundreds of square miles of river valleys and creek beds in an area of Texas that is roughly the size of South Carolina. Tens of thousands of residential structures were damaged or destroyed, while others disappeared entirely overnight. The economic loss is in the tens of billions of dollars. The total personal loss is unknowable. This is the story of that loss: what led up to it, how people faced the flood that night, how first responders sacrificed to prevent and mitigate it, how politicians and officials responded to it, and how the victims will try to live and rebuild through their tragedies. STORY: https://www.10tv.com/article/news/state/texas-news/texas-flood/hearts-and-heroes-flooding-texas-hill-country/269-ee59e290-6086-46e6-af7e-98d9b9bffbe9