{"id":376178,"date":"2026-07-16T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376178\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:57:10","slug":"texas-floods-kill-2-with-more-storms-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376178\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas floods kill 2, with more storms to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mandatory evacuations across the Texas Hill Country are under way as life-threatening flash floods wreck bridges and roads with more heavy rain expected overnight.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A wide swathe of Texas is forecast to receive as much as 20cm (eight inches) of additional precipitation through Friday morning to cap off a week of downpours that revived memories of the catastrophic deluge that killed more than 130 people a year ago.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Evacuations have been complicated by almost 90 road and highway closures between San Antonio and the border town of Del Rio. Firefighters, state game wardens and police officers have been deployed to rescue residents trapped by the flooding or atop houses surrounded by rushing water.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two people have died. One involved a man in a recreational vehicle that was swept away by floodwaters and the second a woman inundated while driving a car, Governor Greg Abbott said during a Thursday evening media briefing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meanwhile, Black Hawk helicopters were being used to pluck stranded residents from Uvalde, a hamlet 135km (85 miles) west of San Antonio, Texas National Guard Major General Thomas Suelzer said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kendall County officials monitor rising water at the Guadalupe River near Boerne, Texas, on Thursday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/18d0b481-b4c7-47c2-b9c9-77185b6980c0_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"Kendall County officials monitor rising water at the Guadalupe River near Boerne, Texas, on Thursday. Photo: EPA\"\/>Kendall County officials monitor rising water at the Guadalupe River near Boerne, Texas, on Thursday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Nueces River that is a dry riverbed in many spots for much of the year is forecast to swell overnight to two times the flow of Niagara Falls, which would be a record volume, Abbott added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mandatory evacuations across the Texas Hill Country are under way as life-threatening flash floods wreck bridges and roads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9982,27,29,2165,28,4510],"class_list":["post-376178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-floods","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-hill-country","tag-texas-news","tag-uvalde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376178","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=376178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}