This story originally appeared on KUT News.
As the waters have receded, some of those stories have surfaced. One of them took place early Sunday morning on Memorial Day weekend on River Road in San Marcos.
Daniel Navarro and his stepfather Chris Gutierrez were searching for a family member and came across a woman and her three children stranded in their car in the floodwaters. Navarro and Gutierrez tell us what happened next.
Shell Peralez and her daughter were stranded in their car in the middle of floodwaters on River Road. Gutierrez, an ironworker, tied a sturdy knot around Navarro, who then went into the water to save them.
Navarro grabbed Peralez’s daughter, Lakota, but couldn’t go back for Peralez or her sons, Joe and Joshua, because of surging floodwaters.
Peralez and her sons were later rescued, but she says, if it hadn’t been for Gutierrez and Navarro, she doesn’t think her family would have made it out of the flood.
