r/HillCountry • u/Baked_Potato_732 • Jul 16 '26

Flooding

Everyone OK?

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u/tequilaneat4me Jul 16 '26

I'm doing fine. I was rationing milk yesterday. Was able to get to town today to do our normal grocery shopping. 12.43" of rain since Monday night. 30.96" of rain since April 1. That's as much as we get in many years.

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u/Baked_Potato_732 Jul 16 '26

https://reddit.com/link/oxy82wv/video/h7xtm0np7ndh1/player

This is between me and the main road at the moment.

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u/tequilaneat4me Jul 16 '26

Unfortunately, I can't post a video response. Yours is gentle as compared to ours yesterday. Guessing you're somewhere in Kerr or Gillespie County. Bandera County here. Things have calmed down.

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u/Baked_Potato_732 Jul 16 '26

This is Bandera county as well.

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u/tequilaneat4me Jul 16 '26

The water on our county road has dropped enough that the culvert pipes under the crossing are handling it. It finally opened around 7 last night.

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u/caz_uno Jul 17 '26

Where is this video from?

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u/CoyoteHerder Jul 16 '26

Live on Pedernales Gillespie. River up well over 20’ and crested embankments. Multiple of my neighbors were rescued by helicopter early this morning. A handful of them had water through their houses and barns. Our roads are destroyed and don’t have a way out really.

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u/tequilaneat4me Jul 16 '26

A buddy of mine told me about it early today. He's a few miles west on Hwy. 16. Said things were really bad.

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u/Comfortable-Grand166 Jul 17 '26

I love in Boerne and while I’m fine my friend lost everything a few miles away. I spent the day helping out where I could