KERR COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — One year after devastating flooding took dozens of lives and changed the landscape of the Texas Hill Country, survivors and loved ones of victims are still recovering. “This one year mark is really signaling that our community and our lives are always going to be changed,” said Austin Dickson, CEO […]
Month: July 2026
Over 200 Hill Country families finding new homes
TEXAS — On the cusp of the first anniversary since the Guadalupe River tore through Kerr County, “normal” is not what this community is feeling. However, a new future is starting to take shape. The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country announced this week that 228 families have received help with temporary housing and finding […]
Symphony of the Hills to mark July 4 with a free concert, flag art and a tribute to the flood’s 119 victims
Kerrville’s Symphony of the Hills will present a free concert at the Cailloux Theater on July 4, pairing a celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday with a tribute to the 119 people who died in last year’s flood — a program that falls on the disaster’s first anniversary. The “Stars, Stripes and Spirit” concert begins […]
Property owners faced tough choice after July 4 flood: Rebuild or leave?
KERR COUNTY — Any time rain begins falling in the Hill Country, Shawn Ligon gets anxious. She recalls waking up nearly a year ago on July 4 to find water rushing into her and her husband Jay’s house in Ingram, across Texas 39 from the Guadalupe River, and scrambling to put the couple’s dogs on […]
Native plant giveaway sends 7,000 grasses and sedges to Guadalupe River landowners
The Hill Country Alliance and partners distributed the containerized plants to nearly 200 Upper Guadalupe basin landowners to help stabilize banks battered by the July 2025 flood. The Hill Country Alliance and a coalition of local and regional partners handed out more than 7,000 native plants to nearly 200 landowners along the Upper Guadalupe River […]
Volunteers replant the Guadalupe as Kerrville nears the flood’s one-year mark
A year of volunteer labor along the Guadalupe River has produced more than 250 trees, nearly 2,000 cuttings and over 1,200 native grasses and pollinator plants — an estimated $75,000 worth of restoration work for about $7,000 spent so far, the Kerr County River Foundation told the Kerrville City Council on Tuesday. Jeremy Walther, updating […]