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Some homes and businesses in the county were also damaged by lightning during the storm, the office said.

As of Sunday afternoon, there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries connected to the flooding.

The downpour prompted water rescues, damaged homes and businesses, and knocked out power for thousands.

The rain had “overwhelmed local drainage systems” and that “widespread flooding and extensive damage to homes, businesses, roadways and parks have posed an imminent threat to public safety.”

Record-setting rainfall caused intense flooding in and around the Milwaukee area starting on Saturday night.

Torn trees, appliances, debris and even corpses littered the banks.

The once placid river where he and his two brothers liked to go swimming had been ravaged.

The morning of July 8, she said her son was moved by the tragedy at Camp Mystic, where most of the deaths were concentrated in two cabins that housed the youngest campers, and joined a group of search-and-rescue volunteers along the Guadalupe River.

Ms. Salas and Ms. Peña escaped with their lives, but Juan Manuel Barraza, Ms. Salas’s husband and Ms. Peña’s father, was found dead, along with two of Ms. Salas’s daughters and Ms. Peña’s sisters, Beatriz and Erica, then just 3 and 2 years old.

The county, at the heart of the Texas Hill Country, suffered 108 known deaths, including at least 27 counselors and campers from Camp Mystic.

Coal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels and the single biggest driver of global warming.

There has been an increase in flooding across the United States in recent years.

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Instead, the site was chosen for habitat connectivity, to help wildlife survive in urbanized environments.

“We need to learn how to coexist, and the Annenberg is such a testament to that.”

Last month, landscapers finished covering the main structure with 5,000 native plants, grown from seeds collected from the area.

The crossing is expected to help species far beyond mountain lions, including bobcats, coyotes, rabbits, bats, lizards and snakes.

Research starting in the early 2000s on collared cats revealed how severely highways, notably U.S. 101, prevent movement.

Once completed, the wildlife crossing will span ten lanes, plus an additional parallel road.

The roots of the city’s wildlife crossing trace back to the 1980s, when wildlife advocates at the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy realized the need for habitat connectivity.