New Delhi, July 17 -- KERRVILLE - Two people are dead and more than 230 have been rescued from the swollen banks of Texas Hill Country rivers after flash flooding struck the region for the second consecutive summer, retracing the same river valleys where a deadlier storm killed 133 people a year ago.

Governor Greg Abbott confirmed the deaths Thursday, the second day of a flooding emergency that began as steady rains overwhelmed the limestone plateau draining into the Guadalupe and Pedernales rivers. Neither victim had been publicly identified by Thursday evening, with rescue operations still active along multiple river corridors as the sun set.

In Boerne, a community along the Guadalupe southwest of San Antonio, fire crews pulled a woma...