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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.
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Where 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,
The city maintains that those recordings are too sensitive to be placed in the public domain, particularly given the risk that they could be posted online. The San Antonio Express-News requested 911 calls and transcripts,
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.
LiftFund has launched its Hill Country Disaster Recovery Initiative. It is mobilizing more than $1.6 million in emergency funding to small businesses impacted by the catastrophic flooding in Kerr County and surrounding counties.
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.
Life-threatening flash flooding was expected along creeks and streams, urban areas with poor drainage, highways, low-lying streets and underpasses.
Only very low rain chances exist for San Antonio and the Hill Country, around Kerrville, for the next few days.
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.
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