Kerrville

Three months after floods hit central Texas, senior editor at Texas Monthly Aaron Parsley shares his experience when he and his family were swept away by rushing water and how they're moving forward.

A disaster tax rate of $.05711 per $100 valuation will go into effect for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget. The move comes less than three months following 4th of July flooding.

The July 4th floodwaters that surged along the upper Guadalupe River left families grieving and a community devastated. Recovery is ongoing, but over the weekend, the Friday night lights of high school football gave Kerrville residents a brief reprieve and a chance to gather and cheer for something familiar and hopeful.

Over the past month, a substantial amount of cleanup has been done but there are months of work left to do.

Gov. Greg Abbott has asked lawmakers to send him legislation to address disaster relief and prevention.

Severe flooding in the Texas Hill Country nearly wiped out an entire vineyard in Kerrville. It'll take years to recover.

Quiet Valley Ranch, where the festival is held, has been opened up for displaced people from the disaster. Organizers are also staging physical donations for flood relief and serving food.

From a rugby team in San Marcos to a pair of friends from Fort Worth, the volunteers in the recovery effort traveled to Kerrville to sustain the community and each other.

Also: San Antonio mourned the victims in a Travis Park vigil; UTSA said one of its teachers died in the Guadalupe River flood; Kerrville officials said a privately owned drone collided with a helicopter conducting search and rescue operations.

Dozens of San Antonio residents gathered with city and faith leaders to remember the victims and families of those who have died in Kerr County's disastrous weekend flooding.