The sounds of thunder and rushing water woke up campers and residents as the swollen Guadalupe River ripped cabins, homes and office buildings out of the ground, catching hundreds people off guard.
One of them was Christian Fell of Fort Worth. Water had rushed in his family’s vacation home, and now he was trying to reach the roof to escape the surging river. He would wait hours, unaware of the catastrophic flooding that would kill 107 people.
Weeks after devastating July 4 floods in Central Texas, Fell shared his experience in Hunt, where his family’s home sits 150 yards from the convergence of the South and North forks of the Guadalupe River. The river is notorious for flooding. In 1989, 10 teenagers died after thunderstorms came through the area, raising the river 29 feet…