{"id":373284,"date":"2026-07-15T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373284\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:01:11","slug":"dozens-of-people-have-been-rescued-in-texas-amid-heavy-rain-and-grim-weather-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373284\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of people have been rescued in Texas amid heavy rain and grim weather forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavy downpours in South Texas washed out highways and stranded motorists Tuesday as forecasters warned that a threat of more severe weather could bring dangerous flooding to already drenched counties near the border with Mexico.<\/p>\n

Storms dumped up to a foot of rain in some rural areas of Texas, leading to dozens of high-water rescues across the region and officials shutting down portions of a busy highway for hours near Uvalde, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) west of San Antonio. A flood watch also included Kerr County, where catastrophic flooding last year along the Guadalupe River killed more than 100 people<\/a>. <\/p>\n

No deaths or injuries Tuesday were immediately reported. <\/p>\n

The National Weather Service warned that storms overnight could dump more than a foot of additional rain to some places into Wednesday, creating potentially catastrophic impacts from flash flooding in areas west of San Antonio. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for dozens of counties. <\/p>\n

\u201cIntense rain rates and compounding effects from multiple rounds of storms will result in a dangerous flash flooding threat through Thursday,\u201d the National Weather Service said. <\/p>\n

Authorities on Tuesday posted videos of rescue crews on boats down flooded streets and one vehicle being swept downstream by fast-moving waters. Five people were rescued by members of the Texas Game Warden Search and Rescue Team and four were rescued by a local game warden, said Maggie Berger, a spokesperson for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. <\/p>\n

In Uvalde, officials said there had been at least two dozen water rescues. They opened a local event center for anyone displaced by flooding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy downpours in South Texas washed out highways and stranded motorists Tuesday as forecasters warned that a threat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5703,1768,1766,5578,9982,490,392,2277,132073,1468,471,82,2384,27,29,1759,28,1760,1499,172],"class_list":["post-373284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-central-america","tag-climate","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-domestic-news","tag-floods","tag-general-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-latin-america","tag-maggie-berger","tag-mexico","tag-natural-disasters","tag-san-antonio","tag-storms","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-hill-country-floods","tag-texas-news","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373284","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=373284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}