{"id":380141,"date":"2026-07-20T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380141\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:23:11","slug":"texas-flood-destroyed-135-kerr-county-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380141\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas flood destroyed 135 Kerr County homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swift-moving floodwater destroyed or heavily damaged 135 homes in Kerr County, Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.texastribune.org\/greg-abbott\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Abbott<\/a> said Monday from Kerrville after taking a helicopter survey of affected areas and receiving a briefing by state and area officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water that surged over the banks of the Guadalupe River last week also damaged 490 homes and about 100 businesses in Kerr County, Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor Kerr County, the majority of impacted residents are owner-occupied single-family homes indicating a substantial need for long-term housing, recovery, repair and rebuilding assistance,\u201d Abbott said during a news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guadalupe River downstream of Kerrville peaked at 37.08 feet in Comfort and is now around 5 feet, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlmost all rivers in this region hit record highs,\u201d Abbott said, adding that in Kerrville, last week\u2019s floods were worse than the July 2025 floods that had a far higher death toll. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For areas where the floodwater has passed, Abbott said the focus has shifted to debris removal and rebuilding, but he added that downstream flooding remains a concern for Cotulla, Tilden and Carrizo Springs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJust because the skies may be clear here right now doesn\u2019t mean that the aggregation of water that\u2019s flowing downstream has peaked. Downstream the waters will continue to rise and continue to pose dangers for those local communities,\u201d Abbott said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking ahead, the state is preparing for a tropical system developing in the gulf that is expected to hit the Texas coast Friday morning, said Janice Maldonado, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Houston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re all watching the tropics right now, we\u2019re getting into the hurricane season,\u201d said Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, \u201cand make sure that all agencies and assets and resources are available.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swift-moving floodwater destroyed or heavily damaged 135 homes in Kerr County, Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday from Kerrville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[134274,1523,134275,392,56,4187,4035,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-380141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-carrizo-springs","tag-comfort","tag-cotulla","tag-greg-abbott","tag-houston","tag-kerr-county","tag-kerrville","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380141","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=380141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}