INGRAM, Texas — In the early hours of July 4, 2025, Mike Trolinger and Brenda Espinoza watched floodwaters swallow everything they had — their home, their belongings and nearly a century of family history. Months later, the Hill Country couple is back — rebuilding their lives along the Guadalupe River without paying a dime out of […]
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More than baseball: Ingram Little League Ballpark reopens as symbol of recovery
Ingram’s Little League Ballpark officially reopened Saturday morning, marking a long-awaited opening day with a ceremony, ribbon cutting and a first pitch thrown by Jim Crane, who played a key role in rebuilding the fields after they were decimated in the July 4, 2025, flood. Crane, the Houston Astros owner and chairman, emphasized that a […]
Summit focuses on recovery
Business owners, civic leaders and community members filled the Hill Country Youth Event Center on Feb. 26 for the Ninth Annual Hill Country Economic Summit, hosted by the Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce. The event ran from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with lunch provided by Acapulco Restaurant, and covered everything from flood recovery finances […]
Community Foundation gives updates for housing flood victims
Following the Fourth of July floods, The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has worked to raise money to give and support the community in the biggest times of need in Kerrville history. One of its biggest initiatives has been rebuilding efforts and housing people who lost their homes on the morning of the […]
235 days later, Hill Country flood survivors still face daily grief and slow recovery
It’s been 235 days since July 4, 2025, when devastating floods claimed 137 lives in the Texas Hill Country. We tend to remember tragedies on milestone dates – one year since the flood, five years since the storm – but people who lived through these moments need help every day. The Kerr County Flood Relief Fund was […]
Hill Country floods survivor hails ‘amazing’ assistance from relief groups
HUNT, Texas – Gary Broach owns a home in the Bumble Bee Hills community just south of Hunt. Broach’s home is not on the floodplain, but on the Fourth of July last year, backflow from the Guadalupe River pushed a wall of water and debris into Bumble Bee Creek. The water and the debris flooded 24 […]
Results of mental health needs revealed
Community leaders unveiled findings Thursday from a comprehensive mental health needs assessment that reveals the July 4 flood will trigger a fourfold to fivefold increase in mental health needs across Kerr County over the coming years. The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country hosted the press conference at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church’s Tucker Hall […]
Hill Country floods are worsening mental health issues in Kerr County, report finds
During a rain storm that rolled into Kerr County one night last week, Austin Dickson, who lives near Kerrville, began receiving calls from concerned neighbors that water was rising downtown. They feared the conditions could become a repeat of the July 4 floods. Dickson, who is also the CEO of the Community Foundation of the Texas […]
Report projects more than 6,000 PTSD cases tied to Kerr County floods without sustained mental health care
The July 4 floods in Kerr County could result in more than 6,000 new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among adults and about 2,000 cases of serious emotional disturbance in children without sustained access to mental health care, according to a new assessment released this week. The assessment was conducted by the Community Foundation of […]
6,000 Kerr County adults could experience PTSD symptoms as a result of the July 2025 flood disaster, report finds
KERRVILLE, Texas — A new mental health assessment released Thursday predicts that thousands of Kerr County residents could face long-term psychological effects following the July 4 flood, resulting in a $1 million funding commitment to expand access to mental health services in the area. The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country and the Meadows […]