With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a wellspring and a looming menace.

The recent disaster has some thinking back to a similar tragedy almost 40 years ago that occurred in the same month and nearly the same place.

The Guadalupe River has a history of deadly flooding. Here is a look over the decades. (AP video Marshall Ritzel/Albee Zhang)

At least 173 people are still missing in Central Texas, with the governor warning that ‘there could be more added to that list’

The death toll continues to rise following the devastating floods in Texas this weekend. Newly released images capture the destruction caused by the overflowing Guadalupe River and the community's profound mourning for those lost.