{"id":376740,"date":"2026-07-17T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376740\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:58:08","slug":"families-forced-to-flee-as-guadalupe-river-rises-rapidly-in-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376740\/","title":{"rendered":"Families forced to flee as Guadalupe River rises rapidly in Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMFORT, Texas – Officials in Kendall County are urging residents to stay vigilant as emergency crews continue monitoring flooding conditions.<\/p>\n

They’re asking people to avoid flooded roads, bridges, creeks and low-water crossings as another rise on the Guadalupe River forced families in Comfort to make quick decisions.<\/p>\n

Tamra Ward traveled from Oklahoma to visit family at Comfort RV Resort, never expecting she would soon be told to evacuate.<\/p>\n

“It’s scary and stressful and you just kind of lost.”<\/p>\n

RELATED: Two killed as catastrophic Texas flooding forces hundreds of rescues<\/a><\/p>\n

Ward said she, her sister, their children, six cats and one dog had only minutes to gather important belongings after emergency responders returned with a mandatory evacuation order.<\/p>\n

“They came back by and said, ‘Okay, we’re doing a mandatory one because the river rose like four feet in 30 minutes.'”<\/p>\n

The family went to Comfort High School, which had been set up as an evacuation shelter, where they were provided a place to stay, food and pet supplies.<\/p>\n

County officials said advance planning helped them prepare before the worst flooding arrived.<\/p>\n

“We had a coordination meeting in preparation for what could happen, what may happen, with guidance from the National Weather Service.”<\/p>\n

Officials said warning sirens were manually activated as water levels rapidly increased. They also said this flood brought even more water than the devastating July 4 flooding last year.<\/p>\n

“The Cypress is what the key watch was as far as the sirens.”<\/p>\n

Another official said the Guadalupe River reached roughly 200,000 cubic feet per second Thursday morning, significantly higher than the peak flow recorded during last year’s flooding.<\/p>\n

“This morning there was about 200,000 cubic feet per second of water coming through the Guadalupe, which was significantly higher than last year.”<\/p>\n

Kendall County officials said they’re waiting for floodwaters to recede before they can fully assess the extent of damage to homes, roads and other infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMFORT, Texas – Officials in Kendall County are urging residents to stay vigilant as emergency crews continue monitoring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-376740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376740","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=376740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}