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<p>County Route 7 - Seemed like every spring the Walkill River breached its banks along the flats leading to the Shawangunk Mountains. It was almost dusk and the light was beautiful, reflecting back the trees. There were geese everywhere in that flooded stretch of farmland.</p><p><a href="https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/county-route-7-renata-natale.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/county-route-7-renata-natale.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">renata-natale.pixels.com/featu</span><span class="invisible">red/county-route-7-renata-natale.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/newpaltzny/" rel="tag">#newpaltzny</a> <a href="/tags/landscapephotography/" rel="tag">#LandscapePhotography</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#MastoArt</a> <a href="/tags/wallkillriver/" rel="tag">#wallkillriver</a> <a href="/tags/floods/" rel="tag">#floods</a> <a href="/tags/weather/" rel="tag">#Weather</a> <a href="/tags/reflections/" rel="tag">#reflections</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#buyintoart</a></p>

<p>Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.<br>—</p><p>After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas. <br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-floods-oral-histories?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/texas-floods-oral-histories?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tex</span><span class="invisible">as-floods-oral-histories?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/floods/" rel="tag">#Floods</a> <a href="/tags/texasfloods/" rel="tag">#TexasFloods</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#Community</a></p>

<p>New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash <a href="/tags/floods/" rel="tag">#floods</a> following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/hill-cou</span><span class="invisible">ntry-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/kerrville/" rel="tag">#Kerrville</a> <a href="/tags/kerrcounty/" rel="tag">#KerrCounty</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/centraltexas/" rel="tag">#CentralTexas</a> <a href="/tags/flooding/" rel="tag">#flooding</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/weather/" rel="tag">#weather</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a></p>

<p>In the five years since Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to guard against destructive flooding, at least 90 local governments turned down tens of millions of dollars in grants and loans.</p><p>That money went unused for years.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/kerr-county-state-grants-flood-warning-system?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/kerr-county-state-grants-flood-warning-system?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ker</span><span class="invisible">r-county-state-grants-flood-warning-system?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/floods/" rel="tag">#Floods</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/emergency/" rel="tag">#Emergency</a> <a href="/tags/disaster/" rel="tag">#Disaster</a></p>

<p>Tuguegarao, <a href="/tags/philippines/" rel="tag">#Philippines</a><br>A man paddles a boat through flood waters past submerged houses in Cagayan province, north of Manila, after a river overflowed during heavy rains brought by Super Typhoon Fung-Wong<br>Photograph: John Dimain/AFP/Getty Images. </p><p><a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a> <br><a href="/tags/floods/" rel="tag">#floods</a> <br><a href="/tags/climatediary/" rel="tag">#ClimateDiary</a></p>