Crissy and Avi Eliashar bought their home in Jonestown, Texas, 13 years ago. They never had a problem with flooding until water washed away their home. Like many victims of the Texas flood, they don’t have flood insurance to help cover the losses.

The deadly floods that struck Texas on the Fourth of July caught local officials off guard as the torrential rains caused the Guadalupe River to overflow in minutes.

The intense thunderstorm may have looked and sounded like a tornado, but that's not what happened, according to forecasters who examined the damage.

In the early hours of Independence Day, rain pelted sleeping communities in central Texas. No one knew yet how devastating the storm would become.

After Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall in South Carolina over the Fourth of July weekend, the tropics are now quiet. Well, sort of. Chantal is now a post-tropical cyclone, according to the last advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center at 11 a.m. ET.

Four families were displaced when part of a roof was torn off an apartment complex in north Arlington during a sudden severe storm that moved through parts of North Texas on Tuesday night, officials said.

Rocco Sansone, 79, of North Plainfield and Brian Ernesto Valladares, 25, a resident of Plainfield and native of El Salvador, died when a tree fell on their vehicle, city officials said.

Samantha, a 24-year-old Plains zebra, was injured “after colliding with a fence in her holding area,” according to Roger Williams Park Zoo.

The chance for a pop-up shower or storm will still be around again into Friday and then the chance diminishes more, but cannot be ruled out, on Saturday. The same cannot be said for Sunday as a cold front will be pushing through late in the day.