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Texas Monthly – Flooding in the Hill Country Is a Centuries-Old Story

Texas Monthly – Flooding in the Hill Country Is a Centuries-Old Story

Posted on July 8, 2025

Guadalupe River Flood in 1987Deadly floods are far more common in Central Texas than we sometimes care to remember—or prepare ourselves for. Less than a month before last week’s tragic events in the Hill Country, slow-moving thunderstorms pummeled San Antonio with rain. In the predawn hours of June 12, more than five inches fell on the city, inundating roadways with fast-moving water. Thirteen died, and a host of other motorists were left clinging to trees for hours.San Antonio was still recovering when the July 4 deluge hit Flash Flood Alley, a nickname for a stretch of the Hill Country that’s especially vulnerable to such disasters. Geology plays a major role, thanks to the shallow, rocky soil formed from weathered limestone hills. The region’s defining topographic feature, the Balcones Escarpment,…

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