Posted on 07/05/2025 5:11:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Ditto about the young girls and women. However, there are also numerous adults that have died. It will be along time before that part of Texas attracts tourists in any big numbers.
I live in the boonies in the next county from Kerrville. Like all the rest of the Hill Country, there are cabins and RV parks on the rivers and full of tourists every Summer and snowbirds in the Winter. We also get catastrophic floods about every 10 years, and it never appears to affect tourism, no matter how many drown or how bad the flood, so no-tourism will likely not be much affected-but maybe smart future tourists will check the weather app on their laptop or phone on a regular basis-most cabin-and-RV parks do have wifi. Texas and the other southwest states with rocky, hilly terrain have sudden floods, so the weather bears watching...
The owners of the RV parks near here made the tourists in the riverfront spaces move their rigs to the high ground as soon as possible flooding was predicted, same as they do anytime this happens-we are used to this weather...
Thanks for the local insight. This time of the year can be quite dangerous for vacationers. I recently read an article that on average 20 people lose there lives while boating on Lake Powell each year...
My 1st hubby was from rural NM and I was raised in rural W Texas-we spent many weekends and vaca times camping in the mountains there with our cub, as well as camping and hiking in Big Bend Park-we were always hyper-vigilant, especially if there was rain predicted-lots of deep draws and ravines there-being a tourist doesn’t mean being careless or uninformed...
That’s awesome... I need to try that.
I use to go on canoe trips in Canada when I was kid and young adult.. Back then all we had was a compass and a map. After a few trips I learned how to read the weather.
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