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Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.

Fear and reticence spread in Fort Worth as Sally Mann’s nude photos of her children were held as police evidence.