That includes an orange cat named Sampson, who disappeared when his family’s house was destroyed. “Samson’s owner did not give up looking for him. The family lost their home in the flood and both family cats were thought to be swept away,” Kerr Pets Alive said in a TikTok post.

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.