Emergency officials are starting to focus on alert systems as they search for answers about how the flash flooding swept away so many.

A small Texas town recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster after it recently upgraded its emergency alert system — the kind of equipment that state and county officials repeatedly balked at installing just a few miles away in storm-ravaged Kerr County.

SAN ANTONIO — Five days after the waters of the Guadalupe River rose and overwhelmed much of Kerr Country on July Fourth, search and recovery efforts continue as the community picks up the pieces of one of the state's worst natural disasters in years.

Multiple people are dead following "catastrophic" flooding in Kerrville, which is about 65 miles northwest of San Antonio

Authorities overseeing the search for flood victims say they will wait to address questions about weather warnings and why some summer camps did not evacuate ahead of the flooding.

Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.