For the first time since catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people in Kerr County, Texas, the county emergency management director conceded that he was sick and asleep as the water rose to historic levels on the Guadalupe River.

Two top leaders in a rural Texas county were asleep and a third was out of town in the initial hours of a catastrophic flood that came barreling through the region, causing widespread destruction and killing more than 130 people earlier this month.

August will continue where July left off in terms of flash flooding, as many inches of rain are forecast to pour down, especially from northern Florida and southeastern Alabama to southern Georgia and the Carolinas.

Multiple rounds of torrential rainfall over the first days of August could lead to flash flooding across the Southeast.

Another days-long stretch of soggy weather is plaguing the Southeast, raising fears of flash flooding and washing out another precious summer weekend along its popular beaches.

Texas state lawmakers held a special legislative session in Kerrville on Thursday (July 31), examining local officials' response to catastrophic flash flooding that killed over 130 people in the Hill Country earlier that month.