SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Guadalupe River levels have fallen considerably from what we\u2019ve seen in recent days, but the flooding has left a path of destruction.<\/p>\n
A layer of mud now covers everything in what the Donaghey family recently debuted as an Airbnb, booked through August and parts of September.<\/p>\n
They lived in the house for about a year, meticulously planning each room. <\/p>\n
The house was built in 1935 and withstood several floods. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo my knowledge, the river never got up to the house. It definitely never got inside the house before,\u201d explained Shannon Donaghey.<\/p>\n
That changed this week when the Guadalupe River crested at more than 30 feet in the area. You can see its debris in a once-beautiful backyard, and its markings on the walls.<\/p>\n
The water rose about five feet inside the house.<\/p>\n
\u201cFive years\u2019 worth of work is wiped out in a night. About 45 minutes,\u201d Shannon explained. \u201cStuff that I don\u2019t recognize that is not ours that floated in the window and floated through the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reservoir for their Keurig machine is laying in the front yard. The coffee maker itself is on the kitchen floor, covered in mud. <\/p>\n
Both of their vehicles are waterlogged, and another vehicle was carried away altogether.<\/p>\n
We asked about their first reactions walking through the door and seeing the damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrumbled, horrible…” John said. “It was hard,” Shannon added.<\/p>\n
The Donagheys say they\u2019re lucky to have so many photos of what the house looked like before. <\/p>\n
Most of the appliances are now overturned and caked in mud. Some rooms are littered with fish.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery muddy, very nasty,\u201d said John. \u201cSome of the beds are still made, but they floated a little bit I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Donagheys say they face a long cleanup process, but they know their home and their community will rebuild.<\/p>\n
They say they’re lucky to have escaped the floodwaters and to still have each other.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re told overall cleanup efforts after this flood are going to take weeks or even months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Guadalupe River levels have fallen considerably from what we\u2019ve seen in recent days, but…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[17053,5229,35683,7922,35682,8580,31078,35684,7202,7203,358,10431,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-45828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-airbnb","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cleanup-process","11":"tag-destruction","12":"tag-donaghey-family","13":"tag-flooding","14":"tag-guadalupe-river","15":"tag-record-levels","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-hill-country","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114811683804667360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}