{"id":766833,"date":"2026-07-16T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:14:10","slug":"live-updates-at-least-1-dead-as-flooding-hits-texas-hill-country-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766833\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: At least 1 dead as flooding hits Texas Hill Country again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnpa5z9000b3b6tmrnt79we@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Guadalupe River in Comfort, Texas, reached higher levels on Thursday than it did during last year\u2019s devastating July 4 floods, but a Kendall County official told CNN this year\u2019s situation feels completely different.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnpc6bn000g3b6tpam9jy9r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis year, we\u2019re just standing by, waiting for any type of calls to come in for help,\u201d Commissioner Chad Carpenter said. As of midday Thursday, Kendall County has assisted in evacuations, but no deaths have been reported, Carpenter said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnrjrz9000n3b6tclt6ie7r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There are also no reports of missing people in the county, Kendall County Deputy Fire Marshal Brady Constantine told reporters at a later news conference.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnpa5z9000c3b6t9xkavc7y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Kendall County is downstream from neighboring Kerr County, which was hit hard last year. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/10\/us\/kerr-county-texas-flooding-search-efforts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the aftermath of the Fourth of July floods<\/a>, several victims from farther upstream were discovered in Kendall County amid massive search efforts.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnpa5z9000d3b6txuup73y3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Officials have activated flood sirens and pushed phone alerts throughout the region, according to Carpenter. State leaders also sent a surge of resources to the area ahead of time to help.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmrnpa5z9000e3b6thoirl72i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI think everyone is more alert,\u201d he said, comparing the situation to last year.  \u201cPeople were up all night ready and waiting to respond.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guadalupe River in Comfort, Texas, reached higher levels on Thursday than it did during last year\u2019s devastating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-766833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}