The RV Communities Wiped Out by Texas Floods
Guadalupe River drew retirees, vacationers, traveling nurses; ’Everyone called each other buddy’

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“Two decades ago, Hurricane Rita destroyed Keith and Karel Halbert’s house in Silsbee, Texas. They moved about 300 miles west to Texas Hill country, thinking it was safer ground.
… On July 4, the Halberts awoke in the early morning hours to the local fire department ordering an evacuation as
flash flooding swept through. They escaped with their dog, Chico, but once again lost their home.
Many others parked near the river didn’t get away, and an unknown number are among the more than 120 dead and 160 recently missing after the floods.
“It happened so fast,” Keith Halbert said. The fire department gave them four minutes to leave, and within “3½ minutes [the water] was in the park.”…”