A night to remember: When the Blanco became a wall of water

It’s been nearly five years now since the night many in Hays County will never forget.

After a rainy beginning to May 2015, an estimated 13 inches or so fell near the headwaters of the Blanco River on May 23, pushing it to levels no one had ever seen before – and when the wall of water some 40 feet high hit

Wimberley early on May 24, it swept a whole house and the three families who had rented it for the Memorial Day weekend into the raging stream.

Over the course of the ensuing days and weeks, 10 bodies were recovered in or near the Blanco from as far as 30 miles away. One, that of a six-year-old girl, Leighton McComb, was never found.