UVALDE, Texas – Floodwaters from the Leona River and surrounding creeks surged into multiple neighborhoods in the Uvalde area, leaving residents facing major cleanup and widespread damage.<\/p>\n
Among the hardest hit was homeowner Antionette Briseno, who returned after an emergency evacuation to find her home destroyed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t even know where to begin. I just I stood here just devastated,\u201d Briseno said.<\/p>\n
Briseno said she went to her grandmother\u2019s house and monitored the situation through home cameras as the water rose.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just went to my grandma’s and I sat there watching my cameras. You know, I’m just seeing the water rise really quickly, and I’m like, it’s getting in the house, you know. And then eventually, my cameras go out, so that’s when I knew that it had already reached the outlets,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Other homeowners in the area also suffered similar destruction. Some residents, speaking off camera, expressed frustration and said the flooding was never supposed to happen, noting that many of their homes are not in a flood zone.<\/p>\n
As residents sort through debris, they have tried to salvage what they can \u2014 including pictures, documents and furniture \u2014 while being forced to throw away treasured belongings.<\/p>\n
Briseno said losing her bed was especially painful because it was a gift from her father, who died in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy bed my bed was given to me by my dad, and I lost him in 2021. So seeing my bed gone was just what else can happen, you know. Like that’s all I have left was memories, and I feel like losing my bed that my dad gave me was just everything was taken from me, you know,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Volunteers and organizations have offered support to residents, but Briseno said she is grateful and overwhelmed as she tries to figure out what comes next. She said she is a single mother working two jobs and is unsure of the next steps toward rebuilding.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked really hard to get to where I’m at, and I lost everything basically except my family, my clothing. I’m pretty blessed to have a lot of friends and family that are helping, but it’s just knowing that I have to rebuild once again. You know, after a divorce, I had to rebuild, and now I’m having to rebuild again due to this disaster. It’s just devastating,\u201d Briseno said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UVALDE, Texas – Floodwaters from the Leona River and surrounding creeks surged into multiple neighborhoods in the Uvalde…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-384837","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\/384837","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=384837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}