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Floods sweep through Texas for the second year in a row

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published July 17, 2026 at 12:07 PM EDT

At least two people have died from flooding in Texas Hill Country, the same area where floods last summer killed more than 130 people.

Lucio Vasquez, breaking news reporter for The Texas Newsroom, joins host Peter O’Dowd from Kerrville, Texas, to describe the devastation he’s seeing on the ground.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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