James Hartley, a reporter with KERA in Dallas, visited Hunt, Texas, an unincorporated community of about 1,300 in western Kerr County, on Tuesday. He sent this first person perspective:
It's been raining off and on here, complicating recovery efforts for the third day in a row.
The risk of flooding is still high in the Texas Hill Country. Standing here next to the Guadalupe River, I see the murky brown water capped with white as it picks up speed.
Hunt was one of the areas more heavily hit by the July 4th flooding.
Debris is piled up almost everywhere I look, a mixture of chopped up trees, drywall, and twisted, deformed metal.
The soggy ground is also stopping crews from getting dumpsters into these areas to remove that debris they've collected. Recovery workers have told me that the mud is slowing down their efforts pretty much everywhere. It prevents them from moving in other equipment that they need to clean up this area.
Authorities are still tightly controlling the flow of traffic along Highway 39, which runs alongside the Guadalupe and through Hunt. There haven't been any reports of rain delaying or halting efforts today like it has in the past two days though, and recovery volunteers continue to converge on central Texas despite these complications from weather.