Crissy and Avi Eliashar bought their home in Jonestown, Texas, 13 years ago. They never had a problem with flooding until water washed away their home. Like many victims of the Texas flood, they don’t have flood insurance to help cover the losses.

The deadly floods that struck Texas on the Fourth of July caught local officials off guard as the torrential rains caused the Guadalupe River to overflow in minutes.

After Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall in South Carolina over the Fourth of July weekend, the tropics are now quiet. Well, sort of. Chantal is now a post-tropical cyclone, according to the last advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center at 11 a.m. ET.

(WIFR) - The forecast over the coming days is going to bring multiple storm chances. While none of these are slam dunks in terms of developing, with the heat and humidity, any storms that do form from this afternoon through Saturday may be strong to severe.

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In the early hours of Independence Day, rain pelted sleeping communities in central Texas. No one knew yet how devastating the storm would become.

When storms are in the forecast, we often show a graphic known as Available Storm Energy, marked with purple colors (pictured below). This graphic represents something known as CAPE.

Former league MVP Tina Charles scored 29 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Sun past the Seattle Storm, 93-83, on Wednesday.

The intense thunderstorm may have looked and sounded like a tornado, but that's not what happened, according to forecasters who examined the damage.

A zebra died in "a tragic accident" at a Rhode Island zoo after apparently panicking during a storm, zoo officials said. The plains zebra, named Samantha, collided "with a fence in her holding area" during the July 3 storm and was killed instantly, Roger Williams Park Zoo & Carousel Village said in a July 7 post on Facebook.

FRIDAY: Not much has changed in the thinking for the end of the week forecast. Expect a little better opportunity for an afternoon storm, mainly inland. It’ll still be fairly brief in nature and closer to a more seasonal day for July in NWFL.

Some were told their policies would not be renewed because their homes are older and more prone to storm damage.