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The heavy rains overnight Thursday and into Friday hit a region of Texas called Hill Country. The hilly terrain gives the water nowhere to go, overflowing rivers and other bodies of water, said Scott Kleebauer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Heavy rains are unleashing a “catastrophic” and deadly flood of Texas’ Guadalupe River on Friday. People have died in Kerr County in Hill Country and roads are washed out in Kerrville in Hill Country, authorities said.