A newborn kitten hitched an unplanned ride inside a vehicle's engine bay across 76 miles of Texas Hill Country, and a team of hospital workers, animal control, and a local rescue group pulled together to save it. A Peterson Health employee drove from Rocksprings, Texas, to Kerrville for a regular shift and had no idea […] The post Newborn kitten survives 76-mile ride hidden in SUV engine compartment in Texas appeared first on American Almanac .
A newborn kitten hitched an unplanned ride inside a vehicle's engine bay across 76 miles of Texas Hill Country, and a team of hospital workers, animal control, and a local rescue group pulled together to save it. A Peterson Health employee drove from Rocksprings, Texas, to Kerrville for a regular shift and had no idea a tiny passenger was tucked inside the engine compartment. When the worker arrived at the hospital and popped the hood, the kitten was still alive, wedged somewhere behind the front grille after roughly an hour and a half of highway driving across open ranchland. The City of Kerrville posted about the discovery on its official Facebook page, and the story spread fast. A Kerrville animal control officer and personnel from…Open
Last year, a storm that hit in the early morning hours of July 4, 2025, caused the Guadalupe River to rise 20 feet in less than an hour. This year, the river rose more than 30 feet over a longer period.
A slow-moving storm system has dumped more than two feet of rain on parts of south-central Texas since Monday, killing at least two people, triggering dozens of water rescues, and leaving more than 2.5 million residents in the path of still-falling rain as the week grinds toward its close. The National Weather Service issued Flash […] The post Deadly floods pound Texas Hill Country as governor declares emergency across 59 counties appeared first on American Almanac .
A slow-moving storm system has dumped more than two feet of rain on parts of south-central Texas since Monday, killing at least two people, triggering dozens of water rescues, and leaving more than 2.5 million residents in the path of still-falling rain as the week grinds toward its close. The National Weather Service issued Flash Flood Emergencies Friday morning for the Ozona area in Crockett County and for Sonora, where floodwaters threatened portions of Interstate 10. Those emergencies, the most urgent flood alerts the NWS can issue, followed at least five similar declarations on Thursday alone, as rivers across the Texas Hill Country surged to catastrophic levels. Gov. Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency covering 59 counties…Open