Flood Watch Issued for Kerr County, Texas
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Through the rest of the evening on Sunday, the NWS is predicting a level two of four (slight) risk of storms across the majority of South Central Texas. Rainfall amounts of two to four inches is expected, while some areas could see pockets of nine to 12 inches of rainfall in certain regions.
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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,
A threat of flash flooding remains from "slow-moving heavy rains overnight and through the day on Monday," the National Weather Service warned.
Near Loop 410 and Perrin Beitel on the Northeast Side, a wall of water swept more than a dozen vehicles into Beitel Creek — killing 11 of the 13 victims. The other two victims were found in separate flood-affected areas: near Leon Creek/Highway 90 and several miles upstream.
A federally funded project at Rice University is trying to tackle that problem — but in just two counties so far.
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.
Most of the 13 victims, the Bexar County Medical Examiner ruled, had drowned: Derwin Anderson, Victor Manuel Macias Castro, Roseann Cobb, Martha De La Torre Rangel, Rudy Garza, Stevie “Wayne” Richards, Andrew Sanchez and Carlos Valdez III.
The San Antonio Zoo is stepping up to help with displaced animals in the Texas Hill Country after the deadly Fourth of July floods.
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.
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.