KERR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Kerr County residents say they are used to some flooding here or there, but this storm was different.<\/p>\n
Neighbors say the sheer amount of rain they got this week made even small streams and creeks turn into rivers, flooding roads and even entire campgrounds in just a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n
Longtime residents say the flooding and devastation are unlike anything they’ve seen before.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the height of it, it would have been at your waist right here,\u201d said campground owner Constance Worth. \u201cActually, where we are at now. A little higher, probably.\u201d<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
\u00a0Kerr County saw more than 20 inches of rain in some places
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\u00a0Creeks and streams turned into rushing rivers, taking everything in its path
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\u00a0Constance Worth says her campground took on more than 3 feet of water from Goat Creek
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\u00a0Worth is just happy everyone at the campground is OK<\/p>\n
Just minutes after coming down to check on the campers Thursday morning, Constance Worth says her family campground was taken over by floodwaters like she\u2019s never seen before.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe flood. Our creek floods all the time. And we\u2019ve had bad floods,\u201d said Worth. \u201cThe bad flood has never even made it into our neighbors\u2019 property.\u201d<\/p>\n
But this time was different.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made it to the Frost trailer, which is right here,\u201d said Worth. \u201cAnd on the other side of their trailer, when I grabbed it, which I knew the water was getting, it was up to my right, right here. And I went to step around it and the water flung me like this. And so I knew, like I couldn\u2019t just walk over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Worth isn\u2019t alone. J.W. Mills grew up in Kerr County.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played around in this creek,\u201d said Mills. \u201cWhen the floods or heavy rains would come, it would get up maybe 5 or 6 feet in this area. Nothing ever like this. A lot of water came down in a short amount of time and had to go somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along areas of the Guadalupe River, it was much the same\u2014water-covered crossings and damaged bridges. That include the Cade Loop crossings, cutting off neighbors and forcing summer camps to create alternate plans.<\/p>\n
Still, through all the destruction, what has brought Worth joy is seeing the community come together.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hunkered down as a little community over here on our porch. We lined it with tables. We cooked all the meat that were in people\u2019s fridges and made soups and made breakfast. We had another girl, that Sally. She made breakfast. She made this whole thing of breakfast tacos. And we all got to know each other,\u201d said Worth.<\/p>\n
The get-together is something she plans on continuing as the community rebuilds once again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you could sit there all safe, it was wonderful,\u201d said Worth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Recreation Room at the KOA campground in Kerrville wasn\u2019t damaged, so they are going to keep it open for the foreseeable future. She says they plan to offer food and cleaning supplies to anyone in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Kerr County residents say they are used to some flooding here or there, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,133778,1570,223,82,57088,1659,1569,835],"class_list":["post-379105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-courtney-davis","tag-ctv","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-severe-weather-2026","tag-texas-floods","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379105","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=379105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}