In the days after the Guadalupe River tore through Kerr County on the Fourth of July, local authorities closed the road leading to two of the hardest-hit communities, Hunt and Ingram, to nonresidents and nonessential personnel. The partial closure, which required drivers to check in with law enforcement just before the bridge to Ingram, was meant to thin out traffic on Texas Highway 39 to make it easier for search-and-rescue vehicles to pass through. It also served to limit visitors who had poured into the area to document the flood damage. Many of them were civilians who had come to bear witness to the destruction, and many were members of the press. Among them were professional content creators, who fell somewhere in between those two…
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