Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water weighing as much as the Empire State building downstream roughly every minute it remained at its crest. The force of floodwater is often more powerful and surprising than people imagine.

New satellite images released from Maxar Technologies show the destruction of the flash floods that have resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people over the July 4 weekend.Local authorities estimate around 160 people are still missing as Thursday marks the seventh day of the search for victims.

Deadly flooding has devastated large swaths of Texas across the Hill Country and Central Texas. The Guadalupe River flooded on Friday, July 4, impacting cities across Kerr County including Kerrville,

More than 100 people were killed and over 160 remained missing as of Tuesday evening after flooding hit Central Texas.

Newly released satellite images reveal catastrophic damage caused by the Hill Country floods along the Guadalupe River.

The devastating floods that struck central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend have become one of the deadliest flood events in the U.S. in the past century, Newsweek previously reported. By Sunday evening, authorities had confirmed at least 82 fatalities.

Texas police described some of the harrowing rescues they conducted after flash floods engulfed camps and homes in the state's Hill Country.