FLORESVILLE, Texas – The flood cleanup has barely started for Floresville businessman Ray Duvall.
The owner of Duvall's Carts and Barns surveyed the damage Monday morning as he drove around his property.
"We actually have water in this building in front of us," Duvall said.
Duvall estimates the flooding triggered by 8 to 10 inches of rain that pounded Wilson County on Saturday night into Sunday morning caused about $20,000 in damage.
Besides filling some of the barns and sheds, high water smashed a 40-foot "cabinette" to bits and washed away two gazebos. One of them could be seen in the distance, while Duvall drove for an hour downstream looking unsucessfully for the other.
"Unable to find one big, brand new 12x12 gazeebo with a red roof," he said. "You'd think we could find it, but it's not anywhere to be found."
Duvall wasn't the only one cleaning up. A portion of Highway 181 at the Floresville County line was shut down, and Wilson County's Emergency Management Coordinator LeAnn Hosek said several roads around the county were also closed.
Hosek said several homes got water in them, and one, possibly two, may be considered a total loss.
Inside the mobile home Catherine and Casten Mackerer rent on 4th Street, Casten Mackerer vacuumed the wet rug with a steam cleaner that sucked up gallons of dirty water.
The water rose to about 4 feet, enough to flood the mobile home with a few inches of water.
Catherine Mackerer's brother, William Mattingly, was in the mobile home when the rain picked up. At first, he thought it was just sound effects for the video game he was playing.
"And I was like, 'Oh, this is a fantastic game,'" Mattingly said.
He soon realized the water was rising quickly.
"Next minute, I was like looking outside. I was like, 'Oh, it's just at the bottom of the step.' Next thing I know, it's coming up through the bottom of the floor," he said.
Fearing for his pets, Mattingly said some volunteer firefighters helped him get them out safely.
"Two of them took the small dogs. I took the two large dogs and we swam to the side of the park," Mattingly said.
Hosek said there were about 20 to 25 water rescues during the flooding but no lives were lost.
Sometimes it helps to remember what didn't happen.
"The loss is really minimal compared to what it could have been," Duvall said while driving past the still standing buildings on his property.