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 broken chunks of concrete, severely hampering the ability of residents in southwestern areas of Hays County to get where they needed to go. When the bridge went, it effectively increased a commute of around 10 minutes to 40 minutes or more.
None of that sat well with those elected to represent that area, among them then-Pct. 3 Commissioner Will Conley.
