We're hoping the widespread flooding will refill the lake and it might. But it'll be dry again by end of summer.
Posted on 07/16/2026 7:10:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Catastrophic flash floods in Texas have killed two people and forced hundreds of rescues in areas still reeling from devastating floods a year ago, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday.
Rescuers aboard boats and helicopters have saved more than 200 people, including stranded drivers and people trapped in homes, Abbott said.
The governor said the hardest-hit areas are expecting more rain into Friday and are not out of danger yet, with some rivers expected to reach historic levels.
After days of pounding rain, the National Weather Service said a large wave on Thursday barreled down the same river wrecked by flash floods last summer when two dozen children and counselors died at Camp Mystic.
Much like last year, the floods came in the middle of the night. But this time some residents in the Texas Hill Country said they received more warnings.
Forecasters urgently warned, “Move to higher ground now!” as rivers rose hour by hour. Some spots of the Guadalupe River rose by more than 30 feet (9 meters).
The governor said more than 2,000 first responders had been deployed and some evacuations began before the worst of the flooding.
“What happened last year was a warning to people on or near rivers,” Abbott said. “No one can be complacent.”
As much as 28 inches (74 centimeters) of rain fell over the past three days in Uvalde County, which was spared from the worst flooding a year ago, the weather service said Thursday. Other areas saw roughly a foot of rain.
Victims in Texas floods were swept away
The governor said one of the victims was driving on a flooded road and was swept away near Uvalde while the other died in Kerr County.
Jennie Steward said the body of her husband, 65-year-old John Mark Steward, of Kerrville,...
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2 dead are now reported in Uvalde. One in Kerville.
Some areas have received 20 inches of rain this week. I’m only at 10” in Medina County.
The difference between this flooding that the 4th of July flooding last year is that happened in a matter of hours. This current flooding has been ongoing since Sunday.
Unfortunately, rivers are still rising and cresting above flood stage as we speak.
We're hoping the widespread flooding will refill the lake and it might. But it'll be dry again by end of summer.
It never rains in Central Texas, except when it does.
Choke Canyon is equally as bad. It will fill up pretty well. I bet Lake Corpus Christi will be over the spillaway.
Rains like these is what carved the canyons there around Garner and such.
Well it’s floodin’ down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
The pattern sort of centered on the Lower Ohio River Valley, and well around it too, has been unusual for July. More typically, our “spigot” shuts off in early July. 20 or 30% chances of rain forecast a couple days out produce little activity. This year, we’ve had many more days with such forecasts, and they all seem to produce a lot of heavy shower and / or t-storm activity. VERY slow moving and static storms have been the rule, too, with a lot of slow east-to-west movement when there is any — normally our storms almost always have a west-to-east component to their vectors.
I’ll take this over the drought we had up until early July, but I wish we could trade every 3rd wet day or so with someone out West still suffering from severe drought. Mosquitos, ticks, and such have gone from lower than usual to very bad — I imagine mosquito & tick borne diseases will be up. :-( Where fields have not flooded for too long, OTOH, from now through August, if we get just average amounts of rain, crop yields should be terrific.
And then it all comes at once.
Dear God,
Please make it stop raining in Texas. Please divert rain to the Coast of NC. We desperately need it.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Two total ... one in Uvalde, one in Kerville.
I scanned the entire excerpt using “Find on page” and it didn’t come up with a single instance of “climate change”. Color me surprised.
Ooh, ooh, and this time there were no contrails in the sky for the flat-earthers to claim were the cause of rain. Rain, you know? That wet stuff that routinely falls ? That, according to the nutters, is only really heavy if some silly doof possibly testing cloud seeding is in the area.
Geesh.
You sound like Gunther Toody.
Normal floods vs manufactured floods, bobo.
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