A month after flooding, Hidalgo County still working to help families recover

A month after flooding, Hidalgo County still working to help families recover

WESLACO — On the morning of Friday, March 28, Marcela Garza awoke to find over a foot of water in her bedroom. When she and her husband had gone to bed the night before, her neighborhood in Progreso had already begun to flood, but the water hadn’t reached her home. An early morning phone call from her neighbor, Rosa Gonzalez, is what woke her up. Water, sewage and debris now flowed in and around her home. She said that it was something she had n…