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1 year on, Texas rains reopen wounds of deadly 2025 Hill Country flood for survivors

As rainfall saturates Texas this week, Lorena Guillen reflects on the year it has been since she and her husband tried to save a family from their RV park in the massive Hill Country floods last year.

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