TEXAS \u2014 Inside the Live Oak County Fair Pavilion, which is serving as a makeshift emergency operations center, County Judge James Liska\u00a0shows the latest mapped projections of what a 40-foot rise of water on the Nueces River will do to some subdivisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have a home in River Creek Acres, you\u2019re going to see that goes over in two places,\u201d\u00a0Liska said.<\/p>\n
The two places the Live Oak County native mentioned are bridges connecting the subdivision. That\u2019s one neighborhood, and the old swimming hole is another place that could be underwater.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are bridges there. It\u2019s going to be very close,\u201d said Liska. \u201cIt\u2019s potential that they could get cut off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liska said first responders \u2014 attached with Texas Task Force One \u2014 have warned residents of rising waters flowing from the heavy rains that hit\u00a0Kerrville and Uvalde two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team went and knocked on those doors and told them the flood is potentially going to get in this area,\u201d Liska said.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday, the Nueces River sat just below 20 feet. Data collected from the U.S. Geological Survey Monitoring System near Three Rivers on Monday showed the Nueces sat at 6 feet.<\/p>\n
For Liska, the focus is to inform and safeguard the public and people who live in or near George West and Three Rivers. Both communities sit on the Nueces.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe roads could cut you off. At this point if they cut you off, you might be sitting there five days before they get you out,\u201d Liska said.<\/p>\n
If that type of scenario plays out, search and rescue personnel from all over the state are in place to mobilize.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe water is going to be to the cement, if not higher,\u201d said John Hogan, a local. From a boat dock on the Nueces under State Highway 59 near George West, he pointed to where he said he\u2019s certain the water will stretch.<\/p>\n
Hogan was at the dock to measure the water rise. He said he’s seen the Nueces\u00a0swell in other flood events.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe water was lapping this bridge right there,\u201d said Hogan.<\/p>\n
That bridge on Highway 59 is roughly 40 feet tall.<\/p>\n
Hogan described the last time he saw the Nueces swell in height and width, threatening all in its roaring path.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike at the beach when a wave comes in, that\u2019s the way it was going down and right behind it was getting bigger,\u201d Hogan said.<\/p>\n
Back at emergency operations, Liska said they\u2019ve had two weeks to prepare since rains quit up north, adding that the area has weathered prior flood events.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve lived through the 2002 flood at 44 feet. I think we\u2019re going to live through this one too,\u201d Liska said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 Inside the Live Oak County Fair Pavilion, which is serving as a makeshift emergency operations center,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1061,5201,132,39655,223,1225,82,27,29,28,1569,835,172],"class_list":["post-391085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-weather","tag-austin","tag-john-salazar","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391085","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=391085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}