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Deadly floods prompt $20M flood alert system in San Antonio

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Deadly floods prompt $20M flood alert system in San Antonio

A flooded area is shown on the Northeast Side of San Antonio, in between Austin Highway and Loop 410. Courtesy of Zachary Wright/MySA This past June, San Antonio mourned the loss of 13 residents who were swept from roads during a record rainfall event that brought creeks, rivers, and even highways to dangerous water levels. Roughly one month later, at least 134 were confirmed dead after monstrous floods hit the Texas Hill Country, which began…

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Acrocantho-what? This dinosaur's footprint was found in the Austin area after the July floods

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Acrocantho-what? This dinosaur's footprint was found in the Austin area after the July floods

Several massive, three-toed footprints etched in limestone were discovered near Big Sandy Creek during cleanup after the July 5 flood. Some of the dinosaur tracks were hidden by brush; others had been covered in sediment that was scoured away by floodwaters. “It’s one of those sort of bittersweet things about our job, is that it’s the cataclysmic events that often preserve fossils in the first place and then also are exposing them,” Matthew Brown, a…

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Bad Takes: Talking about climate change's role in the Central Texas floods isn't 'politicizing the issue'

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Bad Takes: Talking about climate change's role in the Central Texas floods isn't 'politicizing the issue'

click to enlarge Texas Tribune / Karim Shuaib II The July’s Central Texas flooding is responsible for at least 137 deaths. Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. If we cannot recognize our own given natures and the natural world as setting any limit at all upon the desires that we contemplate taking seriously; if we will not listen to the anticipations and suspicions of the artefactual conception of human beings that sound in half-forgotten…

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Nearly 200 homes in Travis County were damaged by July flooding

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Nearly 200 homes in Travis County were damaged by July flooding

Nearly 200 homes in the Big Sandy Creek neighborhood in northwestern Travis County were damaged by flooding on July 5, according to a report released Monday by county officials. Of the homes affected, 71 were mobile homes and 127 were single-family houses. Travis County is offering short term housing, temporary property tax relief and waiving permitting fees for people rebuilding their homes. Residents can also apply for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but…

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Texas bills increasing youth camp safety face long odds, even after Hill Country floods

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Texas bills increasing youth camp safety face long odds, even after Hill Country floods

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Although not specifically named in Gov. Greg Abbott’s list of directives for the current special legislative session, state lawmakers have filed several bills to shore up the safety of youth camps in the…

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Kerr County officials failed to follow certain aspects of disaster plan during Texas floods

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Kerr County officials failed to follow certain aspects of disaster plan during Texas floods

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A five-year-old emergency management plan, obtained by The Texas Tribune late Thursday, shows that Kerr County and Kerrville officials were operating from a generic disaster response template that, in some cases, officials failed…

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“Nobody came”: Hill Country flooding survivors recount anguish, neglect during emotional hearing

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“Nobody came”: Hill Country flooding survivors recount anguish, neglect during emotional hearing

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. KERRVILLE — Flood survivors fought back tears Thursday as they described losing children, going days without contact from emergency management and discovering human remains still scattered in waterways even after victims who had…

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Top two Kerr County emergency officials say they were asleep as July 4 floods struck

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Top two Kerr County emergency officials say they were asleep as July 4 floods struck

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The top two emergency management officials in Kerr County told lawmakers Thursday that they were asleep in the early morning hours of July 4 when floodwaters rose. The disaster killed more than 100…

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As the floods hit, Kerrville officials’ messages show lack of information about what was coming

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As the floods hit, Kerrville officials’ messages show lack of information about what was coming

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The day before the Guadalupe River rose 34 feet in the small Hill Country city of Kerrville and swamped areas along the river banks, Mayor Joe Herring Jr. messaged the city manager with…

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'We sang them church songs': Survivors, volunteers reflect on deadly TX floods

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'We sang them church songs': Survivors, volunteers reflect on deadly TX floods

A stone with a spray-painted message sits on the bank of the Guadalupe River during a search and recovery mission on July 11, 2025 in Kerville, Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images) Jim Vondruska/Getty Images Kalina Silverman, the creator behind Big Talk, took her mission to “skip small talk” and “make meaningful connections” to the Texas Hill Country after the deadly July 4 floods.  Silverman told MySA that when wildfires ravaged the Pacific Palisades in…

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The floods swept away her father's legacy. Now, she's digging up memories left behind in the mud.

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The floods swept away her father's legacy. Now, she's digging up memories left behind in the mud.

Before the flood, Wren Bates was working on a memory wall. She had tacked photos of her father in his prime — piloting a plane and smiling on a sailboat — on a wall in his shop next to Big Sandy Creek. Her father, Marcus Bates, was a machinist and an aviator. Wren grew up helping him fix airplanes and big machines, with the soundtrack of Jimmy Buffett playing in the background. The last thing…

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Preparing for Houston’s Hurricane Season in an Age of Austerity

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Preparing for Houston’s Hurricane Season in an Age of Austerity

TM Out Loud Preparing for Houston’s Hurricane Season in an Age of Austerity Houston-based staff writers Mimi Swartz and Michael Hardy on living with storm risks and learning not to expect the government’s help when disaster strikes. By Texas Monthly July 24, 2025 The downtown Houston skyline and flooded Texas Highway 288 during Hurricane Harvey on August 27, 2017. Thomas Shea/AFP via Getty When the devastating floods hit Central Texas this month, key positions at…

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Long-standing problems led up to deadly Hill Country floods, witnesses tell legislative flood committee

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Long-standing problems led up to deadly Hill Country floods, witnesses tell legislative flood committee

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. No minimum qualifications for local emergency management coordinators. No easy way to know if local officials are getting weather warnings. Difficulty getting all first responders on the same radio communication channel. And the…

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Number of people missing from Texas floods drops to 2 after discovery of woman's body

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Number of people missing from Texas floods drops to 2 after discovery of woman's body

click to enlarge Amber Esparza Debris clutters the bank of the Guadalupe River after devastating Central Texas floods. Rescue workers have recovered the body of a missing adult woman in the Kerrville area, dropping the number of people still missing after the catastrophic Central Texas floods to two, Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Tuesday night. The discovery leaves one girl from Camp Mystic and one adult male still missing two weeks after the disaster, the governor…

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Texas House Dems say they won't work on other legislation until Hill Country floods are addressed

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Texas House Dems say they won't work on other legislation until Hill Country floods are addressed

click to enlarge Screenshot / Texas House of Representatives The Texas House Democrats sent their letter to House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, pictured above, during the first day of the special session. On Monday, the first day of the Texas Legislature’s special session, Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock,advising they won’t work on any other legislation until the body addresses this month’s devastating Hill Country floods. The strongly worded letter comes as…

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