The flooding over the Fourth of July weekend killed at least 17 people in Travis, Burnet and Williamson counties.

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It took what Heather Cokendolpher's calls the "grace of God" to get her, her husband, their two dogs and both of their sons on top of the carport as flood waters rushed into the home and into the ...