An aerial view of the Wal-Mart parking lot, devastated by the recent Texas flood that reportedly caused irreparable damage to more than 1,400 structures.
On Wednesday, May 17, authorities evacuated Horsheshoe Bend, Texas, expecting the Brazos River to flood.
A home on the Blanco River was taken off its foundation after the flash flood in Wimberley that caused authorities to issue a voluntary evacuation order.
In a statement declaring a state of disaster in 40 Texas counties, Texas Governer Greg Abbott said, "It's devastating to see what I saw on the Blanco River when this tidal wave of water just swept away neighbourhoods."
Bent road signs rest on a bridge railing over the swollen river in downtown Houston.
A large, uprooted tree was swept onto the Highway 12 bridge over the Blanco River in Wimberley, Texas.
Victims look for old family photos in the piles of debri and ruins that swept into their home in Wemberley, Texas.
19 dead and 12 missing by Wednesday, Oklahoma is still threatened by recurring rounds of storms and floods. Cleanup and rescue missions become more difficult with these obstacles and each failed attempt results in another stuck in the mud.
After days of heavy rain, the earthen dam at Padera Lake began to overflow in the morning of Wednesday, May 27. Workers hurriedly pump water out of the dam to relive pressure.
A rescue team finds a man at the northwest corner of Lamar Blvd., clinging to a fence.
A man kayaks, looking for missing people who had been swept away by the flood in the Blanco River.
Firefighters rescue civilians who survived the flood by clinging to a tree at their home in Kyle, Texas.
3,000 residents of Wimberley work together to rebuild their lives. Joey Polivka and Sonni Oxford haul pieces of wood and stranded logs that remain of their homes.