Neighbors in Bandera are calling it the “Memorial Day Curse.” They say last year's floods were bad enough during the holiday weekend, and this year, it’s even worse.
The water is normally about three feet deep. Parents like to bring the little ones to one spot on the Medina River because it's shallow and surrounded by lots of gravel, so they can stand close. But, on Memorial Day, the levels are about 10 feet up.
“Within about 20 minutes, it was getting dangerous very fast,” said Will Dietrich with the Bandera Marshal’s Office. “I knew it was gonna be bad Saturday night. I came out and drove around real quick as soon as it started raining, and the ducks were leaving out of the park."
As Bandera prepares for more rain, the city park is closed off to drivers as the water levels grow higher with more rainfall.
Elizabeth Wycoff's trailer washed away with the floodwaters on Sunday morning. Her trailer was one of six in Pioneer RV Resort to unhinge.
"Lots of things were covered in mud: baby toys, things like that were just tossing," Wycoff said.
She was in San Antonio during the flooding but arrived at the RV park to find her trailer on another part of the property against a tree.
"Luckily, people at the trailer park were nice enough to help me with the tractor and get it off of the power supply I was stuck on,” Wycoff said. “If it wasn't for that tree, I'm pretty sure we could have ended up down river."
Over the bridge to Bandera City Park, barbecue pits, replaced from last Memorial Day, disappeared. Concrete benches were carried away as well.
"You see how the water just destroyed the road here. Asphalt and everything off the roadway," Dietrich’s said. "Normally these trees that are right here in front are right on the riverbank and not even on the water."
Both campgrounds and the city park were evacuated Sunday morning. Marshals report that all got out safely from the high water rescues, aside from one dog taken by floodwaters in a trailer off Highway 16.