Heavy Rains Return To Texas 10 Days After Catastrophic Flooding

Central Texas has erstwhile again been deed pinch dense rainfall and flooding, prompting rescues and evacuations conscionable 10 days aft catastrophic flooding deed nan region and killed complete 130 group crossed nan state.

Over nan weekend, rains returned to nan region, inundating already saturated soils and halting hunt efforts connected Sunday.

Devastating floods were unleashed successful nan Hill Country region connected July 4, erstwhile nan Guadalupe River surged complete 20 feet. In hard-hit Kerr County, 106 group were killed. Overall successful nan state, astatine slightest 132 were killed and complete 160 stay unaccounted for.

Six to 10 inches of rainfall fell complete cardinal Texas complete nan weekend, starring to much flooding, including on nan Llano, Lampasas, and San Saba rivers. The Lampasas River, which runs done aggregate counties, jumped 30 feet successful little than 5 hours adjacent Kempner, Texas.

This morning, a flood watch remains successful effect for cardinal Texas, which includes Kerrville, Uvalde, Brady, Round Rock, and Austin.

Heavy rainfall betwixt Uvalde and Kerrville has already dropped 3 to six inches of rainfall successful nan past 12 hours. Rain is besides expected to move towards Kerrville connected Monday morning, pinch downpours expected crossed this region passim nan day.

The slow-moving thunderstorms will lead to renewed flooding owed to nan already saturated soils.

Over nan weekend, Kerr County issued a Code Red Alert owed to an excessive rainfall forecast. Kerr County was nether a flash flood informing precocious Saturday into Sunday, and streets erstwhile again turned into rivers of fast-flowing water.

Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday nan authorities was making rescues successful San Saba, Lampasas and Schleicher counties and evacuations were underway successful Lampasas, Menard, Kimble and Sutton counties. He said Texas Task Force 1 rescued "dozens" from nan Lampasas area.

A flood informing is successful effect connected nan Guadalupe River astatine Hunt connected Monday arsenic dense rainfall moved into Kerr County and nan Hunt area. In Kerrville, a flood watch is successful spot done 9 p.m. CT Monday.

The river, arsenic of 4 a.m. section time, was astatine 8.45 feet and is forecast to scope mean flood shape astir 11 a.m. CT, pinch a shape of 14.6 feet, nan National Weather Service agency of Austin-San Antonio said early Monday.

"Seek higher crushed on nan riverbank," nan upwind work warned.

At 4:30 a.m., the upwind agency warned “a vulnerable situation” was unfolding crossed bluish Uvalde, eastbound Real, occidental Bandera, and southwest Kerr Counties aft 2 to 4.78 inches of rainfall fell successful nan past 3 to 4 hours.

“More dense rainfall is connected nan way. Flooding is already happening,” nan agency said.

Regarding nan Fourth of July play floods, much questions are being raised astir whether section officials could person done much to pass those successful flood zones.

Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said he’s unsure if he received an alert from nan nationalist upwind service, which was sent astir 1 a.m. connected July 4.

A car submerged successful flood waters during terrible thunderstorms connected Sunday successful Ingram, Texas.Jim Vondruska / Getty Images

"I really deliberation I person my upwind study worldly turned disconnected if I’m being honest," Rice told NBC’s Morgan Chesky. "Because 1 pinch my family, pinch first responders, again, I’m successful it each azygous day. My telephone stays connected 24 hours, 7 days a week. We’re successful changeless connection pinch emergency responders."

"So whether my worldly is connected aliases not is really a moot constituent because we person teams of experts that tin navigate" these types of situations, he continued.

City, county, and authorities leaders person each promised to behaviour a afloat reappraisal of nan flood response.