Photo Gallery: Flooding in the Valley’s rural communities has left residents devastated

Homes in Green Valley Farms are surrounded by standing water from the recent floods Thursday, April 3, 2025 San Benito. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Aurelio Reyna, 74, walks past clothes drying on a wire fence at San Felipe subdivision in Las Milpas Wednesday, April 9, 2025 in Pharr. His home was flooded for days following the recent floods. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Jose Plascencia’s photo albums are seen drying in this garage Wednesday, April 9, 2025 in Pharr. Plascencia spent 30 hours with 13 inches of water flooding his home due to the recent floods in Las Milpas. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Two goats wade through knee-deep water at Green Valley Farms Thursday, April 3, 2025 in San Benito. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Victor Trejo, a pastor at Los Fresnos Church of Christ and his wife Selena drive their vehicle to help people in the Green Valley Farms subdivision Thursday, April 3, 2025 in San Benito. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Rafael Villa, 41, of Green Valley Farms talks about how he wades through chest deep water everyday to get to his car and change his clothes to go to work Thursday, April 3, 2025 in San Benito. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

The National Weather Service Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley reported between 16 and 20-plus inches of rain fell in a span of 24 hours in the Valley, with areas in La Feria and Harlingen to Rio Hondo receiving the highest numbers. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Dried, caked mud line the edges of a drainage ditch in Mercedes Thursday, April 3, 2025. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Floodwaters cover a field north of Mercedes Thursday, April 3, 2025. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Dark floodwaters surround the submerged subdivision of Green Valley Farms as Pastor Victor Trejo of Los Fresnos Church of Christ looks on Thursday, April 3, 2025 in San Benito. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)

Habitat Circle East was littered with household items that were ruined by last month’s flooding Wednesday, April 9, 2025 in Pharr. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com)