ST. PAUL, Texas \u2014 Residents in St. Paul say flooding in low-lying areas continues to be a problem, though some progress has been made on drainage improvements since a storm last month flooded several properties in the community.<\/p>\n
Crissie Godines, a St. Paul resident whom Neighborhood News reporter Stephanie Molina spoke with last month after that storm, said conditions have improved slightly.<\/p>\n
St. Paul residents say flooding remains a concern despite recent drainage improvements in San Patricio County<\/p>\n
“We’re still flooding, of course, but it’s not as bad,” Godines said.<\/p>\n
Since then, Godines has made progress on flood-control improvements, including digging a pond and building a berm near drainage ditches. Godines said the county is also taking steps to address the issue.<\/p>\n
“They actually have work orders in place,” Godines said. “They have culverts already delivered, and they were supposed to start this week, but of course, it started raining.”<\/p>\n
Other residents said they have dealt with flooding for years. Jesse Soto, who has lived in St. Paul since 2010, described the ongoing challenges flooding creates for him.<\/p>\n
“It gets difficult for us, especially for me, being disabled, to get out there with the water being so high and ants all over the place,” Soto said.<\/p>\n
Soto also raised concerns about what could happen if heavy rain causes flooding to worsen.<\/p>\n
“If I needed an emergency exit, being able to get out would be impossible,” he said.<\/p>\n
While work to address Godines’ flooding concerns is underway, other neighbors are also seeking help from the county.<\/p>\n
A safety note: Neighborhood News reporter Stephanie Molina fell while attempting to walk through a flooded area during a Facebook Live earlier in the day. Officials advise residents not to walk or drive through flooded areas.<\/p>\n
San Patricio County Commissioner Ruben Gonzalez was contacted for a phone interview about the issue. He said he would call back but did not respond before deadline. This story will be updated if and when a response is received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL, Texas \u2014 Residents in St. Paul say flooding in low-lying areas continues to be a problem,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,112418,120881,120880,120882,4126,120883,120884,120885,120886,120887],"class_list":["post-339171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-crissie-godines","tag-culverts-san-patricio","tag-flood-control-texas","tag-jesse-soto","tag-kris-6-news","tag-low-lying-flooding","tag-ruben-gonzales","tag-san-patricio-county-flooding","tag-south-texas-flooding","tag-st-paul-flooding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339171","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=339171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}