Alexis Moriarty wanted to help.
The teenager and her mom, Michelle, dropped off underwear, towels and toothpaste to donation centers in Kerr County on Sunday, following the devastating floods nearby that have killed more than 100 people. Dozens are still missing.
The two then pulled off the highway near Comfort to join a search team.
“We were walking up the Guadalupe River, up and down, seeing if we could find anything that belonged to anybody,” Alexis said. “Or, anybody.”
The mother and daughter, who are from San Antonio, picked through brush and muck for nearly two hours. Disasters like floods, tornadoes and hurricanes have a habit of picking up people’s belongings and shaking them like a snow globe — and then breaking the snow globe. Alexis and her mom saw detached door frames, a koozie, even a badge from a school band stuck in a tree.