Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water weighing as much as the Empire State building downstream roughly every minute it remained at its crest. The force of floodwater is often more powerful and surprising than people imagine.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin says his family were among those saved from the catastrophic flooding in Texas over the weekend which killed over 100 people. Youngkin said that his wife, Suzanne, and other unnamed family members were stranded at a property near the Guadalupe River when the disaster happened.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said his family was rescued in the unprecedented floodwaters that killed more than 100 people in central Texas.