{"id":237970,"date":"2026-04-07T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:51:06","slug":"west-nueces-county-residents-thankful-for-weekend-rain-amid-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237970\/","title":{"rendered":"West Nueces County residents thankful for weekend rain amid drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NUECES COUNTY, Tx \u2014 Residents in West Nueces County were overjoyed by the rain that fell this Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Many shared that excitement, sending in photos to the KRIS 6 News Coastal Bend Weather Watch Facebook group, where rain gauges measured a few inches of rain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were excited to receive the rain because much needed, as everybody knows,&#8221; Driscoll resident Anita Camacho said.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the overjoyed reaction is the intensity of the drought, especially in rural areas of West Nueces County, where the dry soil easily soaks up water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a blessing, on my rain gauge here today, I measured 2.7 inches,&#8221; Robstown resident Emmett Reyes said.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes noted the effects of the extreme drought on his property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can look at my sidewalks. They&#8217;re all cracked open, and that&#8217;s due to the extreme drought we had,&#8221; Reyes said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only just close to my porch and maybe around, but other than that, all the back is just dead,&#8221; Camacho said.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was nice to receive rain, residents tell Neighborhood News Reporter Stephanie Molina it is just not like how it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Normally, these ditches get filled with rain even though it&#8217;s not full, but I always have water in there, and this time there was no water,&#8221; Camacho said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole thing was about 3 to 4 ft high on the rainy season, and right now it&#8217;s all dried up,&#8221; Reyes said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said they will continue to remain optimistic about the future of the Coastal Bend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a blessing,&#8221; Reyes said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good thing we got some rain, and hopefully we can continue getting rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All we can all do is just pray for more rain\u2026 That&#8217;s all we can do,&#8221; Camacho said.<\/p>\n<p>KRIS 6 meteorologists have mentioned the Coastal Bend is going to need a lot more rain to help the drought, but residents say it is better than nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NUECES COUNTY, Tx \u2014 Residents in West Nueces County were overjoyed by the rain that fell this Easter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,91480,91481,91482,91478,10873,91479],"class_list":{"0":"post-237970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-rain-gauges","12":"tag-rain-in-west-nueces-county","13":"tag-reaction-to-recent-rain","14":"tag-recent-rain-in-coastal-bend","15":"tag-stephanie-molina","16":"tag-west-nueces-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}