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FILE: Recovery efforts statesman pursuing devastating and deadly Texas flooding
Residents crossed the Texas Hill Country are opening cleanup and betterment efforts pursuing the deadly flooding that swept done the portion this week. At slightest 2 lives were mislaid to the floods, with implicit 250 rescues made. FOX Weather Correspondent Brandy Campbell is unrecorded successful San Antonio with each the latest.
Austin, TEXAS — Following days of torrential rainfall and life-threatening flooding crossed the Hill Country, Lake Travis tops 100% afloat capacity, prompting the archetypal Mansfield Dam floodgate merchandise successful 7 years.
The surging h2o levels are straight impacting low-lying shoreline communities.
FILE: Looking down connected Lake Travis successful Austin, Texas
(Heather M Bell / Getty Images)
Local quality outlets study floodwaters astatine Graveyard Point person already wholly swallowed backmost patios and are pushing toward surviving spaces.
WATCH: FLOODED GUADALUPE RIVER RUSHES THROUGH KERRVILLE DURING FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY
Last week, Central and Southwest Texas were battered by historical downpours, with up to 2 feet of rain falling implicit the Hill Country wrong a three-day period.
Multiple h2o rescues were carried out, and officials tragically reported 2 fatalities.
FILE: Flooding submerges roads crossed Uvalde County, Texas
Flooding is inactive a large interest crossed Uvalde County, Texas, wherever roads are inactive submerged and officials are telling residents to not question unless perfectly necessary. Aerial video shows the grade of flooding crossed the county.
The days of relentless rainfall besides caused the catastrophic illness of the Farm-to-Market (FM) 481 span successful Uvalde County.
BRIDGE COLLAPSES DUE TO INTENSE FLOODING IN UVALDE COUNTY AS NONSTOP RAIN SLAMS TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
The existent authorities of Lake Travis remains a superior absorption for h2o officials. According to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), Lake Travis is considered afloat for h2o proviso purposes at 681 feet supra mean oversea level (MSL).
WHAT FLOOD WATCHES, WARNINGS AND EMERGENCIES MEAN
As of Tuesday morning, the h2o level sat at 683.65 feet MSL—roughly 2.6 feet supra its afloat excavation capacity, oregon approximately 105% full.
"The flood excavation of Lake Travis is the country betwixt 681 feet supra mean oversea level (feet msl) to the crest of the exigency spillway astatine 714 feet msl. The Lake Travis flood excavation tin store 776,062 acre-feet," LCRA states.
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FILE: Dangerous flooding continues to inundate parts of Texas, arsenic dense rainfall swamped the region. (Jeremy Timmons)
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Crockett County, Texas, flooding connected Friday morning, July 17, 2026. (Crockett County Fire & EMS/Facebook)
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Floodwaters inundate Uvalde, Texas, connected Thursday, July 16, 2026. (FOX Weather)
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Flood harm astatine Arcadia Bridge successful Kerrville, Texas, connected July 16, 2026. (FOX 7 Austin)
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Uvalde flooding connected Thursday, July 16, 2026. (FOX Weather)
This indicates the water remains astir 30 feet beneath the exigency spillway crest. However, the rapidly rising h2o prompted the LCRA to unfastened floodgates astatine Mansfield Dam connected Saturday, July 18—marking the dam's archetypal floodgate cognition since 2019.
TROPICAL STORM BERTHA STRENGTHENS, THREATENS GULF COAST WITH HEAVY RAIN, STORM SURGE AND SQUALLS
FILE: Mansfield Dam Lake Travis Hydroelectricity Colorado River adjacent Austin , TX successful Central Texas.
Compounding the situation, Tropical Storm Bertha continues to way done the Gulf.
Although the FOX Forecast Center said the tempest is not expected to driblet heavy, flood-producing rainfall connected the areas inactive recovering from past week’s disaster, arsenic of Tuesday morning, it is inactive forecast to bring gusty winds and scattered pockets of rainfall to parts of Texas aboriginal this week.
Stick with FOX Weather arsenic we proceed to way Bertha and its determination impacts.
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