KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 Over a week since the major flooding devastated Central Texas, residents are continuing to rebuild small steps at a time, but\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a long process\u00a0that is both physically and emotionally grueling.<\/p>\n
Even though\u00a0she’s\u00a0out of the water now, Kerrville resident\u00a0Alma\u00a0Maldonado\u00a0still feels like\u00a0she\u2019s\u00a0drowning.\u00a0She recounts how she woke up the morning of July 16 to\u00a0splashing\u00a0water\u00a0in her home\u00a0that swept her outside against her\u00a0wire fence. Volunteers are helping\u00a0Maldonado sort through the\u00a0pieces of her life that are scattered\u00a0outside her home.\u00a0She explains that even though every house looks like a mess, she is still attached to what is in this mess.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Early assessments report\u00a0nearly 500\u00a0homes were damaged in last week’s storms. On\u00a0Friday,\u00a0Gov. Greg Abbott talked about the long road ahead.<\/p>\n
“The work\u00a0is beginning\u00a0with regard to fixing this region and\u00a0get\u00a0it rebuilt and put back together,” Abbott said.<\/p>\n
Maldonado explains any helping hands are welcome, but the heavy lifting comes from the patience and understanding she has received as she parts with the\u00a0home she\u2019s\u00a0known for the last 26 years. She says she is grateful\u00a0for\u00a0the support from\u00a0volunteers\u00a0as she processes what\u00a0comes\u00a0next.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 Over a week since the major flooding devastated Central Texas, residents are continuing to rebuild…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5175,132,1570,102,56,223,82,27,1659,29,28,1569,835],"class_list":["post-387886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abigail-vaerewyck","tag-austin","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-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387886","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=387886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}