This week on the RV Podcast: A special report… when an RV Park Floods: A Firsthand Report
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This week, we’re releasing our weekly podcast a day early and changing up the normal podcast format in the wake of the devastating loss of life and the terrible flooding in Texas which claimed dozens of lives. So many are still missing, and among those victims are many RVers and campers who thought they were going to spend an idyllic Fourth of July weekend in the beautiful Texas Hill Country.
RV CONVERSATION OF THE WEEK - RV Park Floods
The flooding in Texas happened along the Guadalupe River and swept away everything in its way, including RVs and the people sleeping in them at several RV parks, including the HTR TX Hill Country Campground, Riverside RV Park, and the Blue Oak RV Park. The Guadalupe River flooded quickly, catching everyone by surprise, and many campers are still missing.
As we record this podcast, responders are still searching for the missing. Desperate relatives, emergency responders, relief agencies, and search and rescue teams from across the nation are in Texas.
For RVers and campers, this tragedy has hit hard. We’ve all heard of the children’s camps where cabins occupied by children were swept away,
In the RV Parks, there was also terrible devastation. And it happened so quickly.
We have two reports from one of the many RV parks and camps that were destroyed by the floods. The first is a report from WOAL News, the NBC affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcasting in San Antonio. They have done an amazing job covering this tragedy, and we want to play for you an
interview they posted on YouTube with the owner of the Blue Oak RV Park. Every RV there was swept away.
On X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, a camper named Jake Richards was spending the Fourth of July weekend wth his wife at the Blue Oak RV Park. He filed a first-person account that shows just how fast tragedy can happen.
Jake and his wife survived. His account is harrowing and I read it now in its entirety. Pay special attention to his closing words:
My wife and I have been staying at Blue Oak RV Park in Kerrville, TX. Our spot was on the elevated second level of the park about 150-200 yards away from the river. I happened to be awake around 4:30am when I heard screaming outside. I rushed outside to see the flood beginning…
pic.twitter.com/vyaGGhjQin— Jake Richards (@Jake_Me_Away)
July 6, 2025
The flooding in Texas is the latest in what, to us, seems to be the worst weather year we have ever experienced. It was just a few weeks ago that another devastating flood hit Kentucky, causing massive destruction and loss of life. We all remember the floods of North Carolina last year, and it seems like every day for the past couple of months, we’ve seen huge swaths of the Midwest, the Deep South, and the Plains under tornado watches and warnings.
As we’ve seen, RVs, because they are not permanent homes and don't have foundations, are particularly vulnerable to dangerous weather. Thus, there is a responsibility to be very weather aware.
Normally,
