The Tuesday after the Guadalupe River flooded the tiny Hill Country town of Hunt, Megan Bruinsma took a break from clearing out the arena at Crider’s Rodeo and Dancehall. She gently picked a blue T-shirt, washed downriver from the Heart O’ the Hills Camp for Girls, out of the mud. She walked toward the entrance, pointing out where the river had ripped off the back wall of the women’s restroom, which had been partially submerged just a few days prior. The whole landscape west of Crider’s, on the Guadalupe, had been violently italicized. But the poles holding up the original rope sign that hangs over the entrance stood fast, mystifying Bruinsma. The main building was also still standing, though the inside had been gutted. “At…
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