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Marble Falls families face the damage major flooding left in their city

Around Marble Falls, 67 city facilities were damaged, including everything from parks to water treatment facilities. That's in addition to 63 homes also damaged, with 28 of those suffering major damage.

MARBLE FALLS, Texas — Shovels scraping concrete were heard all around Marble Falls on Wednesday.

People in the Burnet County town were beginning to clean up after a flooded Colorado River seriously damaged their homes.

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“We’ve been flooded before,” Carolyn Edwards said. “But never this bad.”

Edwards and her husband, Jerry, live on Lakshore Drive in Meadowlakes. Their home was in an area which saw significant flooding, as they said the water line went 3 to 4 feet from the floor.

The floor of their waterfront home is now covered in mud and their pool is now brown and also filled with mud.

“It will take a complete renovation to get us back,” Edwards said. “It’ll probably take close to a year.”

Around the city, 67 city facilities were damaged, including everything from parks to water treatment facilities. That’s in addition to 63 homes also damaged, with 28 of those suffering major damage.

“It’s shocking, and good, that there were no water rescues, injuries or fatalities during this,” city spokeswoman Christina McDonald said.

The city said it’s continuing to assess damage around the town and is bracing for more rain.

Until then, the Edwards family is just hoping to share their gratitude with their neighbors who spent much of their day helping them clean up and move forward.

“It’s a genuine community anybody would be privileged to live in,” Edwards said. “We are so thankful to every single person who stopped and said, ‘What can I do?’”

The city announced Wednesday it will begin formal debris management operations with the forecast for more rain in the coming days. In doing so, it will conduct curbside brush pickup and put roll-off dumpsters in affected neighborhoods for house trash. However, it said construction materials are not included.

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