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Texas is drenched by heavy rains as forecasters warn that more storms could bring dangerous floods 49%
By JOSH KELETY0%
7/14/2026, 11:43:38 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Halo Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 62.9% saturation with 154 hits. Analysis detected 564 faulty-reasoning hits from 245 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 49.9% and a BS Rank of 49% (9,715 of 18,735 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 51.90% 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.
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.
“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.
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