Mark Edwards, field operations manager for the nonprofit group Texas EquuSearch, deployed more than 120 trained volunteers on horseback, in ATVs and on foot to look for survivors and victims. The team included Robert Crow, a member of Tejas Vaqueros, a riding group from Houston.

The death toll from the devastating floods across central Texas surpassed 90 as dozens of people remain missing. In Kerr County, at least 48 adults and 27 children died, according to officials.

Crews search for victims of flooding that has killed almost 90 people in Texas Hill Country, with the risk of more flooding still high in central parts of the state. Authorities said Monday that the death toll was sure to rise.

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said recent government spending cuts to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service did not delay any warnings.

The heavy rain that turned a river in Texas into a raging wall of water was fueled by unique atmospheric conditions, according to meteorologists and climate scientists.

A combination of steep terrain, shallow soil and a moisture-laden weather system that stalled over the Texas Hill Country caused the flash floods that killed at least 79 people Friday. The weather system that caused the flooding was fueled by moist air from the coastal plain that swept up the Hill Country’s steep cliffs,

More flooding is possible Monday in the already devastated region of Central Texas where historic flash floods swept away homes, cars and camps over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.