There’s a new path forward for Mike Blackledge, whose Center Point home had the Guadalupe River rush through it on the morning of July 4th.

“I’ve been here for quite a few years, and I’ve had the water high enough where I could kayak under my house,” Blackledge said. “But I’ve never had it come through. And it broke through the back side of the house and started coming through and just washing through the house.”

Blackledge was able to get out in time, but he lost everything he had.

“Furniture, clothing, appliances — I lost one of my cats,” Blackledge said. “I lost virtually everything that wasn’t three feet off the ground.”

He has not been able to obtain the permits to start the rebuild process until his property has been raised above the floodplain.

Thursday marked a new start after

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