{"id":457023,"date":"2026-10-05T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457023\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:58:09","slug":"storms-bring-essential-drought-relief-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457023\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms bring essential drought relief to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS \u2014 The rain in Texas over the last week is a \u201cgreat first step\u201d in helping the ongoing drought, according to a Fort Worth hydrologist.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Waller with the National Weather Service said the dry ground and plenty of room in reservoirs helped prevent runoff. The good rains have already been reflected in our lakes: Lake Houston, Lake Amistad and Lake Travis all rose about 2 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 The rain in Texas over the last week is a \u201cgreat first step\u201d in helping the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[132,1570,102,116,118,117,56,30720,82,57088,27,1569,835],"class_list":["post-457023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-austin","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-houston","tag-lily-celeste","tag-san-antonio","tag-severe-weather-2026","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457023","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=457023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}