{"id":374358,"date":"2026-07-15T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374358\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:35:11","slug":"texas-river-swells-with-fast-flowing-floodwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374358\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas River Swells With Fast-Flowing Floodwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Frio River near Leakey, Texas, swelled with fast-flowing water on Wednesday, July 15, as the National Weather Service warned it could reach <a data-ylk=\"slk:major flood stage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/water.noaa.gov\/gauges\/08195000\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">major flood stage<\/a> further downstream at Concan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Craig Inderwiesen captured video of the rapidly-rising water levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s starting to flood a little bit here. We&#8217;re about a foot deeper than we were even last night,&#8221; he <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2086004341981287\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said the current was about 3 to 5 knots and &#8220;definitely something you don&#8217;t want to get caught in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Describing the submerged trees in the video, Inderwiesen said: &#8220;These were all dry yesterday in a little rock bank there. Right now they&#8217;re just completely underwater.&#8221; Credit: Craig Inderwiesen via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Frio River near Leakey, Texas, swelled with fast-flowing water on Wednesday, July 15, as the National Weather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132423,124442,1971,27,29,28,35723],"class_list":["post-374358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-craig-inderwiesen","tag-leakey","tag-national-weather-service","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-water-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374358","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=374358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}