After the storm was over, those living along the flooded rivers started the process of assessing the damages and cleaning up.

Now, flood waters in the Comal River neighborhood have receded, and the damage is evident.

The New Braunfels fire department began by hauling a car out of the Guadalupe River. They didn’t know who the owner was, but they said they thought the automobile floated down the river from some other place.

In one home, a family salvaged what they could and dumped the rest.

"Everything was just covered in silt. So we've already cleaned everything. I mean all the landscaping washed away," neighbor Carol Burr said.

Her son, Adam Burr said everything on that level of the house was ruined.

"It's just complete devastation as far as our downstairs room. As you can see, everything was floating, and what didn't float stayed down with the muck," he said.

Earlier in the day, as flood waters rushed through New Braunfels, airplanes and helicopters took to the skies.

One pilot, Derrick Smith took his helicopter up. He runs a flight school at the local airport. Authorities pressed him into service to help them locate stranded people.

"It feels good. It feels good that we had some way that we could have helped, donate help and better what was out there at the time. At the time there was only one or two other helicopters flying," Smith said.

Mike Hoser is one of Smith’s pilots. He flew the chopper while Smith looked for those who needed help.

"We just located one guy that we were trying to get out of a tree and stuff like that. Derrick flew that and brought a couple of fire department people over to drop them off and be able to help that guy," Hoser said.

Between rescuing people and rescuing valuables, emergency workers and the City of New Braunfels have a lot of work to do, and the cleanup could go on for some time.

The Burr family still said they feel pretty fortunate. Their house has several levels. Water only got into the lower level, which they use mostly for storage.