Reliving the Flood of March 27, 2025 (through the news of the Texas floods from July)
Heartbreaking.
That is the single word I would use to describe the news I have seen come out of Texas over the past few days. The single word I would associate with the destruction that has been caused, over the lives that have been lost.
Seeing such devastating acts of nature is never easy. It isn’t made easier when you’ve lived through something similar.
On March 27th, 2025, I became a victim of the flooding that occurred in Hidalgo County of South Texas. While I wrote about my experience extensively on Facebook, and recounted it on my personal blog on my website, the long story short is that I spent the night alone in the house I lived in with my former roommates. With three people and multiple animals already in their car, there was no way for my former roommmates to bring me along, and I elected to stay behind with the remaining animals with the belief that they would be able to come back that night (which they were unable to do).
As I watched the water rise in the house, I thought, What will I do if the flooding gets worse?
The truth of the matter is that the area I lived in at the time of this flooding was not in a floodplain. In this regard, I was fortunate—because even though the water rose over half a foot in the house, I was not forced to make a drastic, potentially life-changing decision.
Which is what so many had to do when the flooding hit the Central Texas area a few days ago.
The water came in the night. People were in their homes, sleeping. They woke to sheer chaos, and many of them died while trying to reach higher ground.
People. Their children. Their pets.
BBC News has reported, as of two hours before this post, that over 100 people have been killed in the floods. What’s worse is that more “life-threatening” rain is on the way, which immediately makes me think that more lives are going to be lost before this entire thing is over.
As I sit here, writing this post months after my own harrowing experience occurred, I think of how lucky I was on the night of the March flood in Hidalgo County, and how thankful I should be that I, my former roommates, and our animals survived the event.
So much has been lost as a result of this horrible event. There are truly no words to describe how horrible this is.
If you would like to help the victims of the flood, ABC 13 Eyewitness News has posted an article detailing where you can send money, and how you can help. There are also countless GoFundMe fundraisers where you can help families and organizations directly.