On July 4, Barbara and C. Daniel Zoeller’s peaceful yard in Comfort was flooded with water from the Guadalupe River below them.

“It’s high. I think the most frightening part was that it came so fast, and just all the stuff it was carrying with it was really scary,” Barbara Zoeller said. “There was so much debris, the trees. And then the fire department came by and told us we had to evacuate.”

She thought they were prepared, but no one was ready for the fast-rising water.

“They told us to prepare for the flood around 1:00 p.m. (Friday), and so, we were kind of ready,” Barbara Zoeller said. “But it came three or four hours earlier. It was here (at), like, 10:30 a.m.”

As she described the terrifying situation, a push of air sounded consistently from her mobile oxygen tank, which she needs

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