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CNN 国际新闻
📌 标题：A devastating Texas flood reopened old wounds. The community’s kindness, and resilience, is helping them heal
📅 发布时间：Updated Jul 20, 2026, 4:00 AM ET
📝 英文原文：
Months after moving to Kerrville, Texas, John Melendrez stood in a neighborhood deli with a sandwich he just realized he couldn’t pay for. His only credit card was declined, and as he apologized to the owner, Chong Chin, embarrassment washed over him.The two men had never met. But as Melendrez turned to leave empty-handed, Chin looked up from behind the counter, smiled, and waved him back. “Don’t worry about it,” Melendrez remembers Chin saying. “We need you to eat.”It was a small act of grace, but one that lingered long after the meal.Six years later, their roles have reversed.After sweeping floodwater swallowed Greengrocers – Chin’s gourmet grocery story – Melendrez is now helping his neighbor, cutting drywall and gathering volunteers to haul trash bags stuffed with mud-caked debris, ruined furniture and waterlogged memories.For the second year in a row, this quiet Hill Country town is digging itself out of a catastrophe that has mercilessly taken a community trying to heal and set them back on the path of mourning.About ayear’s worth of rainfell in parts of southern Texas last week and authorities said “a large and deadly flood wave”moved down the Guadalupe River,before it crested at nearly 38 feet in Center Point Thursday morning. A river gauge downstream from there in Comfort rose 25 feet in a single hour.A year ago, historic flooding in Hill Country killedmore than 130 people, including25 young girls attending summer camp and two camp counselors.Their deaths shattered families across Texas and far beyond.A broken heart sign is displayed near Camp Mystic July 8, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area in Hunt, Texas.Eli Hartman/AP/FileThis year, two people were killed. The heartbreak was just as devastating.Jennie Steward was away visiting family when the flood struck. For a few agonizing hours, first responders desperately searched for her husband, John Mark Steward. Their home had been ripped from its foundation and swept into floodwaters with him st
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🇨🇳 中文翻译：
搬到德克萨斯州克尔维尔几个月后，约翰·梅伦德雷兹站在附近的一家熟食店里，手里拿着一个三明治，他刚刚意识到自己付不起钱。他唯一的信用卡被拒绝了，当他向店主 Chong Chin 道歉时，他感到尴尬。这两个人从未见过面。但当梅伦德雷兹转身空手离开时，钦从柜台后面抬起头，微笑着挥手示意他回去。 “别担心，”梅伦德雷兹记得钦说。 “我们需要你吃饭。”这是一个小小的恩典之举，
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