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The National Weather Service issued the watch for 'Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney, Llano, Medina, Real, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde and Williamson [counties].
Linda Bason and Deana Hillock checked into the HTR campground on July 3 for a mother-daughter weekend. The next morning, the Kerrville camp was destroyed.
The San Antonio Zoo is stepping up to help with displaced animals in the Texas Hill Country after the deadly Fourth of July floods.
Just 24 hours after devastating floods struck the Hill Country, more rain continues to fall including in San Antonio. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the northeast part of San Antonio.
A threat of flash flooding remains from "slow-moving heavy rains overnight and through the day on Monday," the National Weather Service warned.
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Axios on MSNWhere San Antonio's drought stands after floodsEven as the Hill Country was inundated during the deadly flooding, rain was more scarce closer to San Antonio, offering little relief to the city's multiyear drought. The big picture: San Antonio remains several years into its most intense drought in decades,
Mitchell, alongside a team of minds keeping the river authority operating, explained that many of these dams were a direct result of legislation passed in 1954, the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. That act led to the construction of over 2,000 dams across Texas.
Emlyn and Penny Jeffrey went to their cabin in Hunt with their grandchild, 11-year-old Bulverde Creek Elementary student Madelyn Jeffreys. They never came home.
The San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks, and Houston Rockets are teaming up to support the Texas Hill Country, which was recently affected by severe flooding.
"But without investment and urgency, they remain ideas on paper - until the next flood turns them into regrets. The River Will Rise Again. That's not fear. It's fact."