Three members of a Bay Area family, one of whom is a brother of a former San Francisco Giants pitcher, are still missing in Texas after devastating flash floods over the Fourth of July weekend.

A Bay Area family is believed to be among those missing in the catastrophic floods in Texas that have killed dozens of people.

The question arises: can a Texas-like disaster occur here in California? The Bay Area's rain and snow season, October to April, does bring flooding, but rarely on the level that occurred in Texas.