In brief: Serious flooding is ongoing in Central Texas along the Guadalupe and San Saba Rivers after a foot of rain or more fell across parts of that area. Locally, another round of thunderstorms is likely this afternoon, followed by a fairly typical summer-like pattern this weekend and beyond.
Thursday & Thursday night storms
As noted yesterday morning by Eric, the forecast changed rather abruptly. And yesterday’s storms, while fairly quick movers, hit with some punch. Thankfully they did, as we saw instantaneous rain rates as high as 4 to 6 inches per hour in spots! Rainfall varied overall, with as much as 2 inches or a bit more in northeast Harris County and about a quarter-inch in western Harris County.
On a more serious note, parts of Hill County have seen some severe rain overnight. South-Central Kerr County is estimated to have received as much as nearly a foot of rainfall. This has led to flash flood emergencies there and along the Guadalupe River. The river at Hunt, TX is approaching 30 feet, beyond the 1987 flood event at that gage.
Historic flooding on the Guadalupe River in Kerr County. (NOAA NWS)
Downstream in Kerrville, they aren’t expected to hit the 37 feet of 1987, but it still looks to be a top 3 flood. Meanwhile, San Angelo saw around 8 inches of rain, with over 12 inches just north of the city. Additional rivers are expected to rise deep into flood stage, with major flooding possible in spots. If you have friends or family that headed out to the Guadalupe or San Saba Rivers, make sure they’re taking any warnings from local officials seriously. More rain is possible today, with some already occurring again this morning.
Today
For Houston, today should probably unfold somewhat similar to yesterday with showers likely to pop up across the region this afternoon. Rain could again be heavy.
Forecast radar for 1 PM today shows isolated to scattered heavy downpours in the area. (Pivotal Weather)
Storms should keep moving today limiting flooding risk. Some gusty winds and frequent lightning will be possible as well. We do expect storms to settle down or dissipate in time for evening celebrations across the region.
Weekend
Additional scattered showers and storms are likely tomorrow, followed by a lesser chance on Sunday. Overall, if you can just manage to live with some passing showers for an hour or two, the weekend should be fine. We’ll keep watching in case anything should change on us again, however. Expect highs in the mid-90s and lows in the 70s.
Next week
It looks like a mostly typical summer week next week. I would expect isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms each day, with highs in the 90s. There may be a skew toward slightly less afternoon storm coverage and hotter temps later in the week.
In brief: Today we tackle Invest 92L, a minimal threat for the Southeast. We also have some important housekeeping to address, and we also have a quick update on some horrific flooding in parts of Central Texas overnight.
First, some housekeeping
We are going to begin this morning with some housekeeping regarding The Eyewall. Eric and myself, along with Dwight Silverman, have been discussing the future of the site. A lot of you have reached out to request ways to support our work beyond just reading, and we have (to this point) resisted that, other than various small sponsorships last hurricane season. And we are grateful for the interest many potential sponsors have shown this year too! However, we are going to try something else this year: subscriptions.
To be abundantly clear, our daily content will remain free, never paywalled, and that is not going to change as long as we operate this site. So, forever. This year, however, we will give readers who wish to support the site the option to do so at a modest cost, as well as a premium option for people who want a little bit more access. We will have more information on this soon.
The first step in this process is to migrate our email newsletter over to the Substack platform. If you currently subscribe to The Eyewall via email, your email should roll over to our Substack without you having to do anything. We understand a few people may have various concerns about the Substack platform, and some of the content posted there by other writers. If you decide to unsubscribe from emails, we understand. But the benefits of this route outweigh the potential costs. The primary issue is that WordPress caps our email subscribers, and the process to manage an account is not user-friendly. For a site with a limited budget such as ours, this is the best way to ensure the continued delivery of an email newsletter with our content. We will still continue to post here at The Eyewall.com, but updates will not be sent via email from here.
Also: Nothing at all is changing with Space City Weather. So for our Houston readers, our site, email, and annual fundraiser is not changing! This only applies to The Eyewall.
Our target date for this migration of The Eyewall newsletter to Substack is Monday, July 7th. We hope that this will offer us the flexibility to do more things, offer more options, more content, and a better overall user experience as time goes on. Thanks for your support!
Invest 92L
First, apologies for a couple days of lapse. Your primary author has been juggling family priorities the last couple days. Let’s get into this. First off, we now have Invest 92L. It’s sitting off the Southeast coast.
Invest 92L looks rather robust this morning, but despite the serious thunderstorm coverage, there’s not a whole lot of apparent organization yet. (Tropical Tidbits)
While it looks fairly impressive on satellite, underneath all the thunderstorms there is not a whole lot of apparent organization to this. That said, we will find out more later as hurricane hunters fly into the system to investigate. I think we could briefly squeeze a depression or low-end tropical storm out of this, but it’ll be close. Thankfully, it’s one of those where despite the classification, the impacts should be the same. We expect that this will migrate to the north over the next day or so, and it will eventually come ashore in the Carolinas before lifting north and east and out to sea.
92L will come ashore in the Carolinas and then exit quickly out to sea. (Tropical Tidbits)
The main threat from 92L will be locally heavy rainfall. The Carolinas look particularly prone to this where 1 to 4 inches of rain could fall near the coast. Not to minimize any threat, but there are currently not any flood watches posted. Still, localized flooding is a possibility with this in those areas. Thankfully, threats up the coast look limited as well.
The five-day NOAA rainfall forecast. (Pivotal Weather)
One other item to watch: Rip currents. Always a hazard but especially with the beaches *packed* this holiday weekend. Please use caution while in the water and always swim with a lifeguard present if that’s possible.
Beyond 92L
Nothing yet. It looks quiet for the time being.
Catastrophic Texas flooding
I want to close with one other major weather story you may hear about. Here’s what I wrote this morning at our Houston companion site, Space City Weather.
As noted yesterday morning by Eric, the forecast changed rather abruptly. And yesterday’s storms, while fairly quick movers, hit with some punch. Thankfully they did, as we saw instantaneous rain rates as high as 4 to 6 inches per hour in spots! Rainfall varied overall, with as much as 2 inches or a bit more in northeast Harris County and about a quarter-inch in western Harris County.
On a more serious note, parts of Hill County have seen some severe rain overnight. South-Central Kerr County is estimated to have received as much as nearly a foot of rainfall. This has led to flash flood emergencies there and along the Guadalupe River. The river at Hunt, TX is approaching 30 feet, beyond the 1987 flood event at that gage.
Historic flooding on the Guadalupe River in Kerr County. (NOAA NWS)
Downstream in Kerrville, they aren’t expected to hit the 37 feet of 1987, but it still looks to be a top 3 flood. Meanwhile, San Angelo saw around 8 inches of rain, with over 12 inches just north of the city.
Some of the pictures and stories from along some of these rivers, particularly the Guadalupe are pretty awful. We are hopeful that the warnings were received in time and that the human toll from this event will be minimal.
King Charles will retire the “royal train,” a private rail line established in 1840 to transport members of the royal family across Britain, in an attempt to modernize the monarchy and cut down on costs. What do you think?
“I don’t know how Britain continues to justify an outdated institution like trains.”
Stephen Tran, Amateur Beekeeper
“Good. The royal family can ride in an armored motorcade just like the rest of us.”
Will Burress, Playbill Folder
“If you’re cutting costs, we probably don’t need both an Earl of Snowdon and a Duke of Gloucester.”
The Legislature will still have to appropriate the funds to pay the judgment, either during the upcoming special session or during the next regular session.
According to the lawsuit filed late last month in Harris County, Trump Burger Kemah, LLC, sued landlord Archie Patterson and two of his companies for allegedly forcibly removing the restaurant’s owner and its staff from the premises on June 7.
After your recent post about interview thank-you notes, I wanted to share a thank-you note / interview follow-up success story!
When I interviewed for my current job, I made an embarrassing mistake in one of my answers to a technical question. I call it embarrassing because the topic was absolutely within my area of expertise, and my answer was so incorrect that it probably made the interviewers wonder if I had lied on my resume (I described a scenario that was physically impossible, and if I truly did the things I said I did on my resume, I would have known it was physically impossible). In my defense, it was a remote interview across different time zones, and it was approaching bedtime in my time zone, which the interviewers acknowledged apologetically. But nevertheless, my original answer probably would have been disqualifying if I hadn’t followed up.
I realized the mistake as soon as I woke up the next morning, and I was pretty sure that all hope was lost, but I was encouraged by follow-up success stories I had seen on your website in the past. So the morning after my interview, before I even had my coffee, I typed up the email copied below. Of course, this wasn’t just about thanking the interviewers for their consideration — it was also about correcting / expanding on my answer to an interview question. But the gratitude was genuine!
I know I’m not the only one who has woken up the day after an interview and realized they made a massive mistake on a question that should have been a slam-dunk for them. So for anyone who may be in the same boat, I just wanted to share my anecdote in case it provides any encouragement, as others have for me!
Here’s the note with details changed for anonymity. (Also, during my interview they did strongly emphasize the team culture about owning up to mistakes and learning from them (which I’ve found to be true now that I work here), so I figured I had nothing to lose by acknowledging it, and if anything maybe it demonstrated that I’d fit in well with the team culture.)
Thank you for taking the time to meet with me yesterday! It was great to get to know you both a little better, and I hope to have the opportunity to get to know the rest of your team as well.
After our conversation, it occurred to me that the energy graph I sketched for your question about llama routes would have made sense from point B to A, but not from point A to B, as it doesn’t make sense for the llama energy to gradually increase along a route. In the moment, I was inadvertently visualizing the energy graph from B to A, which would have been similar to one of my recent projects. From A to B, the llama energy would have to be quickly charged up to its highest level at point A, and then it would gradually decrease at a constant rate over the mountain summit until point B. This is essentially a mirror image of the graph that I sketched during our call yesterday. This error seemed obvious to me after the fact, and I wanted to own up to it as soon as I realized.
For reference purposes, see below for the contact information for two of my former supervisors. Please let me know if you need any additional information from me moving forward.
The 1.6-mile West Alabama Street reconstruction project stretches between Shepherd Drive and Spur 527, from Upper Kirby through Montrose to Midtown. It's not the first infrastructure initiative to face changes under Whitmire’s administration.
Canada turned 158, and Donald Trump got to open one of his presents early! Ian and the Panel (Nile Séguin, plus special guests Andrew Ivimey and Diana McCallum) discuss how that “elbows up” thing is working for Mark Carney, some of our favourite things about this country, and invent a new Canadian accent. Then the […]
Here at PepsiCo, we take pride in our family of beloved brands, which are enjoyed by billions of consumers all over the world. As evidenced by our numerous corporate-responsibility initiatives, we take our obligations to society seriously, which is why we are writing today to apologize for inadvertently contributing to the crisis of American democracy through our popular Mountain Dew soft-drink brand.
Our role in democratic backsliding did not begin overnight. The Mountain Dew family of products was, we now realize, a ticking time bomb. Our beloved “Willy the Hillbilly” seemed an innocent product of a simpler time, but we now recognize that, in its embodiment of the identitarian politics of a regionally marginalized white working class, Willy is largely responsible for fueling the sense of resentment driving the base of authoritarian populism today. When we encouraged our viewers to “Do the Dew,” by embracing a lifestyle of extreme daredevil feats and adventuresome nontraditional sports, we were unaware that this focus would involve the atrophying of the soft skills necessary for economic success and stable relationships in a postindustrial world, priming a generation of American men for failure and frustration.
We cannot deny, though, that our implication in American social fragmentation goes further. When we began promoting Mountain Dew “Game Fuel” to young American men, we had little thought beyond reaching the lucrative, yet nascent, demographic of electronic-gaming enthusiasts. Never did we consider that caffeine-fueled all-night gaming sessions would lead not merely to healthy, friendly socialization but to radicalizing 3 a.m. YouTube rabbit holes, Gamergate, and the formation of a tech culture hostile to existing societal norms and morality.
Similarly, our cross-branded “Quest” promotion with Doritos encouraged consumers to solve online puzzles and games in pursuit of a mystery flavor. While this seemed harmless enough at the time, it has become clear in retrospect that a populace eager to do its own research by trawling through hints and innuendo on the internet would be ill-prepared to resist the allure of QAnon, anti-vaccination propaganda, and deranged political conspiracy theories.
And while our surrealistic Puppy Monkey Baby advertisements drew remarkable engagement, we must now acknowledge that these commercials served only to heighten the sense of living in a post-truth era, in which reality itself was subject to dispute and, ultimately, discarded. In a world where a horrific tripartite homunculus wanders across your screen, howling its own name, of what use is consensus reality?
Now, it is with sincere regret that we come to our greatest failure. When we launched the Dew-mocracy campaign in 2007, we considered it an engaging and clever way for consumers to participate in market research for selecting a new Mountain Dew flavor. However, we must now acknowledge that there is a direct line between the disappointment and disfranchisement felt by first-time Supernova and Revolution voters every time they saw the winning Voltage flavor in stores following the 2008 results and the widespread abandonment of faith in Dew-mocratic—and democratic—institutions. This crisis of faith was such that by 2016, our Dewcision campaign was ripe for accusations of rigged voting and predetermined results. Our efforts to paper over these concerns with the DewNited campaign of 2019-20 were clearly inadequate, and we apologize unreservedly for any pretense that they would suffice.
While we cannot deny our responsibility for the destruction of our democracy, we at PepsiCo and the Mountain Dew brand are always looking toward the future, which is why we’re confident you’ll enjoy our upcoming promotional campaign, featuring three new dye- and mRNA-free flavors made entirely of untariffed American ingredients. “Dew-mocracy: One Last Time” is very tentatively scheduled for 2026.
President Donald Trump’s budget megabill is in the House of Representatives after being narrowly passed by the Senate. Here are the key items in “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
Funding for something called “The Facility.”
Smaller, phone booth–sized detention boxes on every American street corner.
Coupon for “buy two get one free” 12-packs of Coca-Cola products at ShopRite.
A few new mean nicknames for Jeb Bush.
A map of California inside a red circle with a cross through it.
A glossy centerfold photo of a hot woman who is about to lose her health insurance.
The end of treatment for those currently receiving CPR.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s world-famous moose tracks ice cream recipe.
Moderate cuts to Medicaid compared to what’s coming.
Henry Hunt, a Greenville native and popular figure in the Houston art scene for decades, died Tuesday, June 17, 2025, of lung cancer at age 76.
Hunt was well-regarded as a connector and supporter of artists, galleries, and arts fans throughout Houston.
Henry Hunt. Photo: Donna Tennant
“Henry Hunt knows everybody in town,” said artist Tod Bailey, speaking of his longtime friend in the present tense. The two met in 2007 when Mr. Bailey moved back to Texas from a stint in Florida. Both grew up in small East Texas towns and both attended East Texas A&M University, which Mr. Bailey said endeared them to each other immediately, along with their shared affinity for art. Mr. Bailey called Mr. Hunt “an eternal optimist,” and said his friend remained encouraging and supportive throughout his artistic career. “I miss him already. … I’m wiser because of knowing him,” Mr. Bailey said.
Gallerist Andrew Durham praised Mr. Hunt’s “southern gentlemanly style” and supportive nature, saying Mr. Hunt’s encouragement was important when he decided to open his namesake gallery in 2022, after mounting several pop-up exhibitions at the former Studio 1821.
Mr. Durham echoed Mr. Bailey’s notion that Mr. Hunt knew everyone in town. “He was really good at making connections. … One day, we were out on an art trail, standing there waiting for someone to walk by, and he said, ‘Andrew, I’ve got to introduce you to this lady. Her name is Kelli Scott Kelley.” Mr. Durham said he fell in love with Ms. Kelley’s work, “and now she’s part of the gallery. And if it wasn’t for [Mr. Hunt], I wouldn’t have met Kelli Scott Kelley, and that happens all the time with him. It’s just kind of who he was. He was a connector of people, and I’m forever grateful for that.”
Henry Hunt. Photo: Donna Tennant
Writer and Glasstire contributor Donna Tennant was Mr. Hunt’s longtime partner. She said the pair often worked together on her writing, he acting as editor and preferring mostly to keep his name out of the spotlight — with a couple of exceptions for recent travel pieces they wrote together about the Dallas and Lubbock art scenes.
The couple shared degrees and interest in art history, first meeting in the early 1970s during graduate school at the University of New Mexico. Ms. Tennant said Mr. Hunt worked professionally as a graphic designer for many years, and maintained a wide range of interests, from visual art to ballet and contemporary dance to studying literature. “He was a Renaissance man,” she added.
Ms. Tennant said after graduation, Mr. Hunt became director of the Gallery of Visual Arts at the University of Montana, where he once introduced a lecture by noted author Truman Capote. Mr. Hunt relocated to Texas in the early 1980s. Mr. Hunt loved going to shows, artist studios, and artist talks, she noted. “He said it nourished him,” and that he “always wanted to learn more about everything. He knew so much about everything, he was a great conversationalist. … He just knew so much about so many things, and people just loved to talk to him. People would say, ‘Oh, I could just talk to Henry all night.’”
In a memorial social media post, arts advocate Melissa Richardson Banks recalled Mr. Hunt’s “warm Southern drawl and bright smile” and “epic” hugs. Echoing others’ appreciation for Mr. Hunt’s abilities as a conversationalist, Ms. Banks wrote, “I loved how he’d pull you aside just to share a story.”
Lynn Lane, “Henry,” 2023, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
Arts professional Lynn Lane said Mr. Hunt was generous with his knowledge and experience as a regular contributor to Mr. Lane’s pre-pandemic weekly Arts Chat and Tacos public conversations, gatherings of arts-interested people at Herrera’s Mexican restaurant. “Henry was a staple … participating and sharing.”
Mr. Lane said they shared an affinity for contemporary dance, and praised Mr. Hunt for his fortitude in bringing well-known choreographers and dance companies to Missoula during his time there, on a shoestring budget. “He made it happen, and [the events] were incredibly successful. He was on the cutting edge with things like that, especially in Montana,” Mr. Lane said. And Mr. Lane’s Houston performance group Transitory Sound and Movement Collective enjoyed Mr. Hunt’s dedicated support. “Henry was always a part of the audience,” he recalled.
“He was probably the most supportive person in the arts that I know,” Mr. Lane told Glasstire. “He was right there with you, promoting you and supporting you and giving you feedback. He was great.”
Though Mr. Hunt easily shared his interests with others, Mr. Lane said he only found out how his longtime friend chipped a front tooth while visiting him in hospice. Mr. Lane was training to try out for an amateur baseball team, and had a baseball with him. “Henry asked me, ‘Can I hold it?’” Mr. Hunt then took the baseball in hand and went through hand positions for a curveball, slider, and other pitches. Ms. Tennant later told him that Mr. Hunt played baseball for his hometown Greenville High School Lions long ago.
Ms. Tennant said Mr. Hunt’s array of knowledge and interests will live on in their shared library, as she reflected on the books he left behind on their shelves: Joseph Campbell, Albert Camus, Shakespeare’s sonnets, Man Ray, the New York Times directory of film, two volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, comic books, and family Bibles. “Our books blended well together. I’ll say that,” she said.
Henry Hunt. Photo: Donna Tennant
Ms. Tennant noted that the funeral will be private, but people who knew Mr. Hunt are invited to attend a memorial gathering at Birdies Den Montrose on July 14, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
July 3, 2025: This article has been updated to remove an incorrect reference to Donna Tennant’s time in Houston and to add the start and end time of the memorial gathering for Mr. Hunt.
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