2+ week, 6+ day ago   (952+ words) Brennan Adcock drove to Hunt on July 4, 2025, with a trailer and chainsaws. He was not a Reach Global missionary yet. He was a random volunteer who had seen videos from friends at Schreiner University and decided to come. A former…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (558+ words) Before Beth Palmer ran disaster recovery operations for Kerr County, she was Coach Palmer in the Ingram ISD gym. She has spent the past two years watching former students walk into the disaster recovery center at Light on the Hill…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (826+ words) A new book chronicling the July 4, 2025 flood and its aftermath will debut next month with a free public event at Schreiner University. Tom Fox, who also established the Texas Podcast Network and serves on the board of the Museum of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (602+ words) Rachel Lovelace had forgotten she worked at an art gallery. She did not know that local artists Randy Thompson and Al Zirkel had noticed. Because traffic lines onto the flood-damaged property stretched for hours, they met participating artists at Lift…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (403+ words) Temporary housing remains a significant unsolved problem. Local Airbnb credits are exhausted. The rental market — high prices, low inventory — has pushed some displaced residents to look as far as Fredericksburg and Bandera. Gibson’s Discount Center reopened Friday after sustaining severe…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (279+ words) Jan and Mike Pieraccini founded Gunny’s Warriors five years ago in memory of their son, initially focused on traumatic brain injury education and awareness among veterans. The Smoke Pit started small — a casual gathering named after the informal spaces on…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (222+ words) Lisa Field describes her leadership style as wearing rose-colored glasses. She is not embarrassed about it. She also describes what she saw along the South Fork on July 4, 2025, as apocalyptic. She is not exaggerating about that either. The society’s permanent…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (312+ words) Becky Etzler did not expect Town Creek. The 2025 flood at the Riverside Nature Center came from Guadalupe River backflow — devastating, but familiar in its mechanics. The 2026 flood came from Town Creek behaving, as Etzler put it, like a “rampaging monster....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (325+ words) The 2025 flood packed the Hill Country Veterans Center floor to ceiling with emergency donations. The center placed displaced veterans in RVs and served as one of the region’s most active relief hubs. The 2026 flood was different. “The 2026 flood received almost…...