The heartbreaking and tedious work of search teams sifting through debris fields looking for victims of the early July flash flood that devastated the Texas Hill Country and killed dozens of people continues at a slow pace.

Texas emergency management leaders are saying it could be months before all potentially missing victims are located. The Texas Tribune reported that a difficult aspect of the recovery is the uncertainty surrounding some people listed as missing.

Emergency officials say there is no way to know how many people were in the rugged area that night. All they can do is go by reports of people missing who may have been in the area and add them to the list of the missing who were verified to be in the huge six-county flood zone.

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