Nearly a week after floodwaters swept away more than a hundred lives, Texas officials are facing heated questions over how much was – or was not – done in the early morning hours of Friday as a wall of water raced down the Guadalupe River.

Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo.

Two days before flash floods on the Guadalupe River in Texas killed dozens of campers at a Christian girls summer camp, a state inspector approved operations, noting there was a written plan for responding to natural disasters.

Flash floods surged through in the middle of the night, but many local officials appeared unaware of the unfolding catastrophe, initially leaving people near the river on their own.

Satellite images are providing a clearer picture of the devastation brought by the deadly flooding in Central Texas over the July Fourth weekend.  At least 120 people were killed and over 160 remained missing as of Wednesday,

A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.

Hill Country residents and volunteers on Tuesday continued picking up the pieces that the deadly waterway left behind days earlier.

In other words, we keep playing a game of chance with forces indifferent to us—until we are finally reminded of the cost of losing.