Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as the death toll rises to 120, as rescue operations start to shift to recovery phase

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in Kerr County on the Fourth of July.

A Kerrville-area river authority executed a contract for a flood warning system that would have been used to help with emergency response, local officials said.

At least 120 people have died and some 173 people remain unaccounted for statewide, nearly a week after flash floods ravaged the Texas Hill Country.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo held a moment of silence Thursday honoring the victims of the recent floods in Central Texas.

TEGNA's local news properties across Texas are joining forces to raise money for the Kerr County and surrounding areas hit by flash floods

Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.

"I hope that everyone knows, prayers work and God is still out there," Kerrville resident Donna Ragsdale said.