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<\/p>\nKERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 Just like last July, heavy rain storms brought tons of water, flooding and destruction to the Kerrville area. But what neighbors say is different from last year is that the flooding came not only from the Guadalupe River, but also nearby creeks and streams overflowing.<\/p>\n
Places like Town Creek Road have been completely washed out and all that\u2019s left is silt, debris and river rocks, leaving a path of destruction to homes and property along the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife got up to get a drink of water and she stepped on the puddle of clean water. We didn\u2019t know where it was coming from,\u201d said Daniel Claudio, a Kerrville resident.<\/p>\n
The moment Claudio was woken up by his wife in the middle of the night, he knew they had to move fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe looked outside, the creek is keeping coming up. Two feet of water down this street, just nonstop going to the creek,\u201d Claudio said. \u201cSo that\u2019s when I said, \u2018hey, get the kids, get our personal, our main stuff, you know, spare certificates, Social Security and grab the dog and let\u2019s go.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Claudio and his family have lived a block up from Town Creek for the last year, but he never expected floodwaters would reach his front door, especially after the flooding last July.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, I believe in Kerrville it rained about 4 to 5 inches,\u201d Claudio said. \u201cNothing crazy. Well, it rained a lot in Hunt. And that\u2019s what brought the river up here that much, you know, but this time it rained the last or the last three nights, you know, Wednesday night, or Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night it rain around 25 inches just in this area. So that\u2019s why all the creeks went higher than before.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Flooding damage on Bluebonnet Drive looking at Town Creek Road in Kerrville, Texas, on Saturday, July 18, 2026. (Spectrum News 1\/Courtney Davis)<\/p>\n
The heavy rains this week hit areas along the creeks and streams in Kerr County that hadn\u2019t seen much damage last July, including places like Gibson\u2019s Discount Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I initially thought the water came from the creek, but that wasn\u2019t the case, it was coming down the street. And we lost power at 3:17 a.m.,\u201d said Doug Hetzler of Gibson\u2019s Discount Center.<\/p>\n
Hetzler said water and mud covered the floor of the store after the storm. Still, he says the response to the storms this year were excellent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard that the some of the sirens went off and it warned people, awesome. I think it was great. Obviously, people are a lot more aware,\u201d Hetzler said.<\/p>\n
Both Hetzler and Claudio say that, while this week\u2019s storm is a hard blow just a year after the deadly Fourth of July flooding in 2025, the community support has been overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, we\u2019ll go through it. Kerrville\u2019s strong, so everybody helps out,\u201d Claudio said. \u201cI had all my friends and family call me. We all were here yesterday cleaning out, so you know, if everybody has the same support, and it\u2019s, it\u2019s nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claudio says he has family about three blocks up that they\u2019re able to stay with at this time. And officials have said that there are already volunteer groups in the area.<\/p>\n
The Salvation Army has been going to houses, seeing what people need done, so they are confident that they will be able to help those who have been affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 Just like last July, heavy rain storms brought tons of water, flooding and destruction to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2160,132,133778,1570,102,56,223,82,27,1659,29,28,1569,2053,835],"class_list":["post-378301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-app-top-stories","tag-austin","tag-courtney-davis","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-houston","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-floods","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378301","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=378301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}