For the second time in as many years, the Guadalupe River has risen with devastating speed through the heart of central Texas, forcing a region still marked by grief to confront the same merciless waters that claimed more than 130 lives in 2025. At least one person has died, dozens have been rescued, and communities from Uvalde to Kendall County are once again measuring safety in feet of elevation and minutes of warning. The river does not remember what it has taken, but the people along its banks do — and that memory makes the rising water carry a particular weight.
Texas floods return to deadly region as Guadalupe River surges again
At least one person confirmed dead; 80+ rescues conducted; recurring threat to same region where 130+ died in 2025 floods including 25 children at summer camp.
This is not something we could really prepare for
Mark
Why does this river keep doing this? Is it just bad luck, or is something structural changing?
Mimi
The Guadalupe drains a large area, and when that much rain falls in a short period, the water has nowhere to go but down the channel. Last year it killed 130 people. This year it's happening again in the same place. That's not luck—that's a geography problem that doesn't go away.
Mark
The camp filed for bankruptcy. Does that mean the families are getting nothing?
Mimi
It means the camp is gone, yes. The legal and financial consequences are still unfolding. But the real question is whether anything has changed in the year since—whether the county has better warning systems, whether people know to evacuate faster. The fact that Lopez is pulling neighbors out of the water suggests the answer is no.
Mark
You mentioned the deer. Why include that detail?
Mimi
Because it shows the indiscriminate force of the water. It doesn't distinguish between human and animal. It just moves. When you see a deer struggling to keep its head above water, you understand the physics of what's happening to the people in those cars.
Mark
What happens to a place after it's been flooded twice in two years?
Mimi
People leave, or they stay and rebuild again. Some businesses don't come back. Insurance becomes expensive or impossible to get. The camp is already gone. Others will follow if this becomes a pattern. The real cost isn't just the immediate deaths—it's the slow hollowing out of a region.
El Pulso
- The Guadalupe River climbed 32 feet in just four hours, prompting the National Weather Service to issue its most urgent language: move to higher ground now.
- At least one person is confirmed dead, and rescuers have already pulled roughly 80 people from the floodwaters as the crisis continues to unfold across multiple counties.
- Residents like Carter Lopez in Boerne spent their morning dragging neighbors from the water, describing conditions that felt even more severe than the catastrophic floods of the year before.
- The shadow of Camp Mystic — where 25 children and 2 counselors were swept to their deaths on the Fourth of July 2025 — hangs over the region as the same river surges again through the same valleys.
- Uvalde, Kerr, and Kendall counties remain under active threat, with waters still rising and no clear ceiling yet in sight.
For the second time in as many years, the Guadalupe River has risen with devastating speed through the heart of central Texas, forcing a region still marked by grief to confront the same merciless waters that claimed more than 130 lives in 2025. At least one person has died, dozens have been rescued, and communities from Uvalde to Kendall County are once again measuring safety in feet of elevation and minutes of warning. The river does not remember what it has taken, but the people along its banks do — and that memory makes the rising water carry a particular weight.
The Guadalupe River was rising again, and central Texas knew what that meant. A year after flash floods killed more than 130 people in the same region — including 25 children at a summer camp — the waterway was swelling once more under days of relentless rain. By Thursday morning, emergency officials were urging evacuation. At least one person had already died.
The National Weather Service in San Antonio issued a stark warning: catastrophic flooding was occurring. The river had climbed 32 feet in just four hours. Governor Greg Abbott confirmed the death and announced that rescuers had pulled roughly 80 people from the water. Footage from the scene captured the scale of the disaster — cars submerged to their windows, deer struggling to keep their heads above the current, rescuers wading through brown water with small children in their arms.
Carter Lopez, 30, of Boerne spent the morning pulling people from the water near his apartment building. His downstairs neighbors had sheltered in his unit after their home flooded. He said this year felt worse than last summer, even though Boerne had largely been spared then. "This is not something we could really prepare for," he told BBC News.
The memory of Camp Mystic — an all-girls Christian summer camp where the river rose 26 feet in roughly 45 minutes on the Fourth of July 2025, killing 25 campers and 2 counselors — gave the rising water a particular weight. The camp never reopened and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Now, as the Guadalupe surged again through Uvalde, Kerr, and Kendall counties, the region faced the unbearable prospect of reliving what it had never fully survived. The water kept rising, and no one yet knew where it would stop.
The Guadalupe River was rising again, and the people of central Texas knew what that meant. A year after flash floods killed more than 130 people in the same region—including 25 children at a summer camp—the waterway was swelling once more, driven by days of relentless rain. By Thursday morning, emergency officials were urging residents to leave. At least one person had already died.
The National Weather Service in San Antonio issued an urgent warning: catastrophic flooding was occurring. The Guadalupe River had climbed 32 feet in just four hours. "Move to higher ground now," the agency posted on social media. "Guadalupe River is rapidly rising and will continue!" Governor Greg Abbott confirmed the death and announced that rescuers had already pulled roughly 80 people from the water. "We will be doing everything possible to save human life," he said.
The flooding spread across multiple counties in South Texas—Uvalde, Kerr, and Kendall among them. Video from the scene showed the scale of the disaster unfolding in real time: cars crawling through roads where brown water reached their windows, a group of deer struggling against the current with their heads barely above the surface, rescuers wading through rising water with small children held in their arms. In residential neighborhoods, parked cars sat half-submerged, rain still falling on the brown water that had swallowed them.
Carter Lopez, 30, lived in Boerne, one of the affected areas. He had spent the morning pulling people out of the water near his apartment building. His downstairs neighbors had nearly four inches of water flood their home after the previous day's storm; they had taken shelter in his unit. Lopez said this year's flooding seemed worse than what the region experienced twelve months earlier. Boerne had been spared the worst of last summer's deluge, but nearby Kerr County had not. "This is not something we could really prepare for," he told BBC News.
Last year's floods at Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River, had been particularly devastating. On the Fourth of July holiday, the river rose 26 feet in approximately 45 minutes. Twenty-five campers and two counselors were swept away by the forceful currents and died. The camp never reopened. Earlier this year, it filed for bankruptcy. Now, as the same river surged again, the region faced the prospect of repeating that tragedy—or worse. The water kept rising throughout the day, and no one yet knew where it would stop.
Citas Notables
We will be doing everything possible to save human life.— Governor Greg Abbott
This is not something we could really prepare for.— Carter Lopez, Boerne resident
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