AUSTIN, Texas - Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes is inviting the community to gather together in remembrance to honor the lives lost in deadly 2013 and 2015 Onion Creek floods.

The backstory:

It's been more than a decade since the Halloween floods wiped out hundreds of homes in the Onion Creek neighborhood.

The Onion Creek neighborhood has a history of flooding and in a short time span, the neighborhood was hit back to back with devastation.

"We've been hard hit by a couple of floods both in 2013 and in 2015 that have had tremendous impact on our families," says Fuentes.

In 2013, water levels at Onion Creek at US 183 reached its record height of 41 feet during the storm. Killing four people and destroying hundreds of homes,

After the floods, the community tried to rebuild but faced ma

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