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Texas is drenched by heavy rains as forecasters warn that more storms could bring dangerous floods 36%
By WTOP Staff31%
7/15/2026, 12:55:55 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Pessimism Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 27.6% saturation with 81 hits. Analysis detected 410 faulty-reasoning hits from 293 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43.3% and a BS Rank of 36% (13,255 of 20,518 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 64.60% of the article peer group.
Heavy downpours in South Texas washed out highways and stranded motorists Tuesday as forecasters warned that a threat of more severe weather could bring dangerous flooding to already drenched counties near the border with Mexico.
Storms dumped up to a foot of rain in some rural areas of Texas, leading to dozens of high-water rescues across the region and officials shutting down portions of a busy highway for hours near Uvalde, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) west of San Antonio.
A flood watch also included Kerr County, where catastrophic flooding last year along the Guadalupe River killed more than 100 people .
No deaths or injuries Tuesday were immediately reported.
The National Weather Service warned that storms overnight could dump more than a foot of additional rain to some places into Wednesday, creating potentially catastrophic impacts from flash flooding in areas west of San Antonio.
Texas Gov.
Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for dozens of counties.
“Intense rain rates and compounding effects from multiple rounds of storms will result in a dangerous flash flooding threat through Thursday,” the National Weather Service said.
Authorities on Tuesday posted videos of a rescue crew in a boat down flooded streets and one vehicle being swept away by fast-moving waters.
Five people were rescued by members of the Texas Game Warden Search and Rescue Team and four were rescued by a local game warden, said Maggie Berger, a spokesperson for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
In Uvalde, officials said there had been at least two dozen water rescues.
They opened a local event center for anyone displaced by flooding.
In Sabinal, officials were also making plans for a shelter.
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