The aftermath of the flooding in Texas is really just beginning.

Volunteers are still working along the riverbank cleaning up debris.

One of them is Cindy Martinez.

I just wanted to help, and it's my birthday, and I couldn't think of them.

I'm so thankful that I'm not going through something like this,

and the only thing I could think of doing, I feel so helpless.

She told NPR's Martin Costi that doing physical work dragging tree branches up the muddy hill

makes it easier not to think about the lives lost here.

Although I'll be telling, I'll be honest with you, when I see things like a lure, a fishing lure,

and I'm like reminded, like, somebody just came out here to fish that day.

What have you found today? A doll, some pajamas, and people's lives. The disaster brought

everyday life in parts of Texas to a standstill. One thing that hasn't stopped, though, is flooding.

Kerr County, the hardest hit area in the Guadalupe flooding, was under another

flash flood warning Tuesday morning. And in just 11 days since the Guadalupe River disaster,

deadly floods have hit communities all across the country. Last week, parts of North Carolina

were inundated as remnants of tropical storm Chantal rolled through.

Emergency Services Director Kirby Saunders called the flooding historic.

I've been here 12 years. It's my 28th year in public safety. I have not seen this.

A man and two children were killed in flash flooding in New Mexico in an area that saw wildfires last summer.

We received three and a half inches of rain on the South Fork-Burm Skar in about a 90-minute period.

That was Ruidoso Mayor Lynn Crawford. Then Monday night, it was New York and New Jersey.

Video on social media captured rainwater cascading into the subways and streets turned into rivers.

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