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from Texas Monthly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beauty and the Danger of the Guadalupe River<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Generations of Texans gather at the river\u2019s stunning headwaters, which have been carved by cycles of catastrophic floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Bekah Stolhandske McNeel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Guadalupe River at Gruene.\u00a0David Wolters\/Getty<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the river takes you, don\u2019t fight it,\u201d my parents told me when I was about nine years old. \u201cIf it takes you under, focus your effort on holding your breath\u2014it will push you back up.\u201d We would practice floating on our backs, feet downstream, like tiny giggling canoes moving diagonally across the Comal, Medina, San Marcos, and other lesser currents that made up the landscape of our gorgeous, dangerous childhoods, until we were ready for something bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those bigger rivers was the Guadalupe, which runs from the Texas Hill County to the Gulf of Mexico, crossing aquifers and collecting tributaries as it plows southeast with a depth millions of years in the making. Before there were roads or fences, the Guadalupe was already cutting its way through limestone in a slow choreography of water and stone. It\u2019s that clever pathway that makes the river so beautiful. It\u2019s that perseverance through rugged terrain that makes it so deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Texas Monthly The Beauty and the Danger of the Guadalupe River Generations of Texans gather at the river\u2019s stunning headwaters, which have been carved by cycles of catastrophic floods. By\u00a0Bekah Stolhandske McNeel \u201cWhen the river takes you, don\u2019t fight it,\u201d my parents told me when I was about nine years old. \u201cIf it takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}