In a few short hours, a normal evening along Texas’s Blanco River became the site of a deadly flash flood.

During the Great Floods of 2011, the Mississippi unleashed deadly currents and a flow rate that could fill the Superdome in less than a minute. Defying government orders, the author and two friends canoed 300 miles from Memphis to Vicksburg. This is their story.

How a tragedy transformed a small town in West Virginia.

A flood-fueled adventure on a forgotten stretch of the Colorado.