Months after Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly faced criticism for being absent after the deadly July 4th flooding , newly released e-mails and text messages show he was at home looking after his wife, who was in "in shock… and worried about looters" after their own property experienced flooding.

Kelly, the county's chief executive officer, had planned to spend the Fourth of July at his family's lake house on Lake Travis, a two-hour drive from the county seat in Kerrville.

That's where he was at 5 a.m. when he received an emergency "code red" message from Kerr County warning people along the Guadalupe River to "evacuate… or get to high ground."

The river had overflowed its bounds, sweeping up people and homes in its path.

Texas Rangers would later identify 119 people killed in the f

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