Texas House, flood and Camp Mystic
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The Texas Tribune on MSNHill Country nonprofit pledges $40 million to help rebuild flood victims’ homes
The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has a four-pronged recovery plan: rebuilding homes, supporting mental health, economic recovery, and reviving the area’s quality of life.
Lawmakers in the Texas House will vote on six bills aimed at addressing the Central Texas floods that killed 137 people.
"I promised her she would be safe and OK. I told her camp was the safest place she could be and camp was a place she could make new friends and learn new things," said her mother, Carrie Hanna. "She not only wasn't safe. She died." Hanna said she received very poor communication about what had happened to her daughter.
Gov. Greg Abbott spoke in Kerrville and helped announce funding to support long-term relief following the July 4 floods. During the conference, the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country announced it would contribute $40 million toward a new housing fund.
The dog days of summer are going to get a little hairy for some folks in the Lone Star State starting this weekend. Heavy rain may impact Southeast Texas at times heading into the weekend, while a cold front is anticipated to bring thunderstorms and the threat of flooding to North Texas starting Sunday.
Wednesday's meeting of the Select Committee on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding is the public hearing for Senate Bill 1, which covers safety for both youth camps and campgrounds. According to the bill's author, it incorporates significant feedback from the families of children lost at Camp Mystic.
The parents of girls who lost their lives at Camp Mystic on July 4 will testify before the Texas Senate Disaster Preparedness and Flooding Select Committee in support of Senate Bill 1.
Parents whose children were among 27 killed at Camp Mystic on Texas' Guadalupe River during the Fourth of July flash flooding are scheduled to testify.
Texas Monthly editor Aaron Parsley’s viral essay on losing his nephew in the July 4 floods moved thousands. Here's why he wrote it.
Families shared stories of grief and heartache, pleading with legislatures to pass a law to ensure Texas camps are better-equipped to respond to emergencies.