Heart-wrenching pleas poured into the Kerrville, Texas, police department’s Telecommunications Center as catastrophic floods swept across the Hill Country in the early hours of July 4. Newly released 911 recordings capture the disaster minute by minute — from the first uneasy warnings to the panic-stricken cries of people watching the water rise by inches, then feet, through homes and cabins along the Guadalupe River, AP news agency reported. What begins as a handful of calm, almost prophetic calls quickly erupts into chaos. In an instant, frantic voices overwhelmed the two county emergency dispatchers on duty: a firefighter clinging to a tree after seeing his wife swept away; a family smashing through their roof in a desperate bid to survive; a woman stranded at an all-girls camp as

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