More rains bring risk of flooding

With soils already saturated and creeks and rivers already running high, Hays County officials are keeping an eye on the rainy forecast for the rest of this week.

“With the upcoming forecasted weather, we are even more concerned given how saturated everything is already,” Hays County emergency operations chief Kharley Smith said. “It will take very little rain for low water crossings to be impacted.”

Eric Platt, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Austin/San Antonio office, said that forecasters are expecting a 50 percent chance of rain Wednesday and about a 60 percent chance Thursday, and though it is hard to predict the weather beyond that, there is a chance for heavy rainfall later in the week.