Hunt, Texas
Community on the upper Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Engineer’s Perspective on the Texas Floods | Practical Engineering | subject | Where most of the July 2025 flash-flood deaths occurred. |
An Engineer’s Perspective on the Texas Floods — Practical Engineering (2025)
Source: Readwise highlight
I counted about 100 rain gauges used by Atlas 14 within a 50 mile radius of Hunt, Texas, where most of the fatalities occurred.
- Role: subject
- In the article: A storm stalled over the small, steep, rocky upper Guadalupe basin and raised the river higher than ever recorded; a gage above Hunt shows a 20-foot rise in three and a half hours from about 2 a.m., and one downstream rose 35 feet in three hours before it broke. In Kerr County there was no time to evacuate, and more than 100 people died, many of them children. The writer uses the sparse rain-gauge record around Hunt to show why historical rainfall statistics cannot capture such a flood.
- Why it matters: Hunt and Kerr County are the centre of the disaster; the author, who has worked on and played in this river, notes that other parts of central Texas got more rain but far fewer deaths.