The owner of Camp Mystic has been accused of failing to evacuate campers until an hour after the first official alert warning of oncoming catastrophic Texas floods.

A flash flood warning was in place for the western part of Kerr County, and a flood warning was in effect along the Guadalupe River in Hunt Monday.

Even when floods can be anticipated, communicating their severity to the public is a tall order. Because flash floods are very localized, even neighborhood-level warnings may seem like false alarms to some residents, leading to what the journalist Zoë Schlanger has dubbed “ alert fatigue .”

Searches were suspended and a new flash flood warning was issued in Kerrville and Kerr County, Texas, on July 13 in the wake of the flooding that struck the area last week on July 4. The warning was downgraded to a flood watch hours later.

With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a wellspring and a looming menace.

Abbott listed that rescues took place in San Saba and Schleicher County, and evacuations occurred in Lampasas, Menard, Kimble and Sutton counties. A total of 131 are dead and roughly 101 remain missing-97 of which are from the Greater Kerrville area-following continued search and rescue efforts more than one week after the devastating Hill Country floods.