Standing at the spot where her RV once stood, singer-songwriter Julia Hatfield grapples with the memories of the night when raging floodwaters forced her and her husband to flee their home at Blue Oak RV Park on July 4.

“It was rising a foot or two a minute,” Hatfield recalled of the flood that devastated Kerr County.

Hatfield was still in disbelief as she surveyed the changed landscape.

The songwriter, whose appeared calm during a now-viral interview just days after the disaster, has now returned to process the trauma and to share her story of survival.

Nature’s swift turn

For Hatfield, the river had been a source of daily joy and inspiration before it became life-threatening. She had spent peaceful days kayaking its waters and never imagined how quickly things could change.

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