Towering cypress trees that had stood sentinel along the Blanco River in Wimberley for centuries were no match for the 40-foot or greater wall of water that transformed the stream into a torrent of death and destruction on Memorial Day Weekend of 2015.

But the water took out more than trees. A bridge on Fischer Store Road also fell victim. Though the structure spanning the Blanco River had stood since the 1990s with no water ever-encroaching on it, the Memorial Day
floodwaters transformed it into ...