July 7, 2025 • 12 mins
In this gripping and emotionally charged episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray discuss the devastating flash floods that struck Central Texas, focusing on the heartbreaking events near Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River.KT leads with a powerful news update, painting a vivid picture of the storm that dumped over 20 feet of water in just 90 minutes—catching families, campers, and even seasoned meteorologists off guard. The crew reflects on the emotional toll of sending kids to summer camp, the helplessness parents feel, and the unimaginable horror of a natural disaster striking in the dead of night.The episode closes with a powerful call to action where you can donate to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund at communityfoundation.net to support those affected by this tragedy.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is a Monday on the benin Skin Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Thank you for tuning in and making us a part
of your daily routine.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We greatly appreciate you doing that.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We've got so much to get into before we get
out of here for today's show. But just know, if
you ever miss something, you can listen on the iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Just go to the iHeart app. It's totally free.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Search Ben and Skin and you'll find all of our
segments there as podcasts or individual shows wrapped up together
as one one hour podcast. But it's on the ihurt
iHeart app. Just search Ben in Skin. But right now
it's time for this.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
And now it's time for Basins week Day up Day
featuring veteran news anchor kt fun Tweets. Here are the
important stories he's currently tracking from.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Around the world.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Yeah, so, with some heavy rains battered parts of central
Texas this weekend, and there was some devastating flooding that
happened in the Hill Country. This is overnight, you know,
into early Friday morning, a big storm system set on
top of the area near Kerville, which is northwest of
San Antonio, and it's created really the word story we've
seen in the state since the Uvaldes school shooting.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I mean, it was devastating. I don't know that, you guys.
I thought about it all weekend.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Yeah, I it's I mean, totally different circumstances, but the
same sort of devastation.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
The hardest hit region was near a Christian girls camp
called Camp Mystic, right off the Guadalupe River, and Guadalupe
River rose somewhere between twenty and thirty feet, you know,
within a span of about ninety minutes, and the river
rises and you've got all kinds of problems. It dumped
(01:33):
more rain than anyone was expecting. This happened in the
over night hours as well, which is a big problem
if you're you know, a warning. I was thinking about
this too. You know, how often do we get a
flash flood warning here all the time? And I don't
really ever think much of it unless we know it's
just we're having crazy Maybe there's a hurricane that was
down south moving up. You know, I don't think about
(01:55):
it too much because we don't deal with that. This
is way different down there with the tapak and things
like that.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And you know, a.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Four am flash flood morning is a little different overnight,
and you gotta round everyone up and go and it's
it just the message just didn't get out to enough
people that this was gonna be really bad.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's the worst possible time, you know, for that to
happen at four am. Pitch dark Man and you know
the you know, immediately I thought of a couple different things.
But my daughter always goes to Christian summer camp. She
just came back not long ago, and now she goes
to Sky Ranch, which is in Van Texas. She doesn't
go there, but you know, there's this feeling of helplessness
(02:39):
when your child goes off to summer camp, especially the younger.
They are right and you're like, it's that first little
piece of independent freedom. They're on their own. But you
know they're in great hands. You know, she went on
a church trip, my daughter, to Florida, even to the ocean,
and those times you just kind of hand your kiddo
over and you're, golly, this is stressful, but I know
(03:01):
they're in great hands. They're going to be fine. You
never in a million years would think anything would happen
that would present danger.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Yeah, it's it's such a terrifying, horrible thing to read
about and see footage of and you know a lot
of people go down there and just camp down by
the river like my h In fact, Christina has done
something similar to that.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
You've gone camping. Didn't you go camping down in like
the golf area?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Uh No, I've only been camping up in Broken Bow before.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh I thought you went near my bed.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yeah, but my sister and brother in law they go
camping down near rivers all the time. And I think
I've even told you guys that story of me and
Trish going with them and kayaking with them, and you
kayak down the river and then you set up ten overnight,
you get back up and kayak the next day.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah. Didn't you have to go to the bathroom in
that story?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
I did, And it's it's a funny story, but this
is not a funny time.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'll circle back and tell it next week.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
But I think you know, there's a lot of people
who are camping down in there, just families that were camping,
And I don't know how much time you guys spent
watching the news, but they'll do eyewitness accounts all these
sorts of things and stories where you know, the mom
and the dad made it out, but their two kids
were with the grandparents and they're missing a lot of
stuff like that. I don't know if you guys saw
(04:21):
the I believe eighty two year old man that started
and ran camp Mysstic. Yeah, he died trying to save people.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, everyone said he was awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He was a great dude.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
And there's there are a lot of families here in
the metroplex whose daughters were either traumatized by that might
still be missing or actually died in in our area.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Wow. How far away is that from here? Is that
like a five hour drive four and a half hour drive?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I guess me a little further than that man.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, growing up.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Here, I had always heard of the two, you know,
just and even since been a parent, the ones and
closest proximity sort of sky Rants of course, and then
Pine Cove, But I had not heard of this one.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I think it's primarily a girls Christian camp. I don't
believe it's it's both sex. I think it's just girls
from what I saw, And it's been around for a
long time, and so imagine, you know, there's camp counselors
that are in their early twenties or you know, in
some cases maybe even late teams. Imagine the feeling that
you're in charge of these teams and it's something that
(05:27):
firefighters can't even handle, right, seven or eight year old
first responders, right, and so you're suddenly in charge of
trying this, I mean just absolutely horrific stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, we're gonna we're gonna take a look at some
of the other stuff, some of the discussions. We're none
of the political stuff, we don't care about that, but
there are conversations about what could have been done to
prevent this, and we'll we'll we'll dive into that coming
up in just a few minutes. But we do want
to let you know that the need here is massive,
it is urgent, and iHeart has done due diligence and
they found, you know, reputable organization that you can donate to.
(06:00):
It's an easy website to remember, community foundation dot net.
Community foundation dot net. That is the website. All donations
will go directly to trusted local organizations to provide food, shelter, healthcare,
and hope. More on this coming up in just a
matter of three plus minutes.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
But me seven point one the Eagle, no doubt everyone's
mind is on what has happened in Kerr County, the flooding,
the tragy that's gone on down there, the loss of
life on a much lesser level, but still a huge
import the loss of property. It's just impacted countless residents,
and it has been brutal on our entire state. And
(06:41):
the need is urgent, and so iHeart, all of us
in the iheartfamily encourage you, if you can donate to
donate today to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund at
Communityfoundation dot net. That is the Community Foundation dot net.
It's the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund. All donations go
directly to trusted local organizations providing food, shelter, healthcare, hope
(07:05):
and more. So we would love it if you could donate.
That is the one that we encourage you to use
here at iHeart Kat. Why don't we pick up the
story we were just talking about, you know, sort of
the facts of the devastation down there, and now there's
a lot of conversation about what could have been done.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Yeah, and I'm more interested in what could have been
done from like what are some of the meteorologists saying
and things like that than I am the you know,
obviously there's a anytime anything big happens, it gets politicized immediately,
and I think that's very inappropriate right now. Yeah, but
there's a couple of meteorologists that have kind of spoken.
I know delcas has talked about it. I saw Rick
(07:42):
Mitchell from NBC five and he was explaining a diagram
and he was showing just like here this pressure system
that was in Lubbock. You know, we didn't think that
it was going to mesh with the Gulf of Mexico.
That pressure system totally weatherman talk here, you know, and
basically it caused He explained what caused that storm to
just sit there in the hill country and not really
(08:03):
move and just dump loads of rain on it. There
was another guy his named Steve McCauley, and I was
just gonna read you a little bit of what he wrote.
He said, after a linked to review of the forecast
dat if from early in the week, nearly all computer
models failed to predict the torrential rains that fell between
San Angelo and Currville. This was true for all but
(08:24):
one model, the higher resolution Canadian model, and it was
one of the only models of all the models they
used to pinpoint here's where it's gonna hit, and here's
how hard it's gonna hit. Although other models were not
telling them this. Now, I do know that a flash
flood watch was put out Friday and Thursday morning at
like eleven am. I think the flash flood warning hit
(08:44):
at one am, you know, Friday morning overnight.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's not like enough time.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
But also also by the way down in that area,
sell service it and good yeah, all over the place. Yeah,
you might be getting an alert that your phone's not
even getting.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And he had a whole take on it.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
He said there were other models that predicted over nineteen
inches of rain, but they too thought it would be
northeast of San Angelo, not right there where it was,
So none of the models were hitting this.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But dead on, nineteen inches of rain is one tenth
of what this was. This was two stories of flooding, right,
so it was twenty to thirty feet that's what.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, that's what's been reported.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Yeah, when you see it too, I mean, if you
look at that river when it's normal, it's just like
you know, Rocky and you can see down there and
you know, and then I don't know if you guys
saw the footage, I'm sure you did.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Suddenly it's all the way up to the overpasses.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And I saw footage of I guess it was a
flood that happened in the eighties or something.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay, nineteenies. Is this exact same place? Yes, the exact
same place, and it was it about the same level
of flood.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh, I'm not sure on that.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
So there's an article in Texas Monthly about this too,
because there was another flood about seventy five miles to
the east of this, but still in that hill country,
that rugged area where uh, they had a big flood.
The town was called Wimberley, and they had a big
meeting in Kirk County about what what can we do here?
Can we do a better job? Basically said this. They
(10:15):
knew about these summer camps too, and they said for years,
local officials kept them safe with a word of mouth system.
When floodwater water started raging up river, camp leaders warned
those downriver the water surge coming their way, and that's
just how they've always done it.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And they had a big.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Meeting about this eight years ago, like can we add sirens,
can we add river gauges and some other you know,
modern communication tools granted, like we mentioned earlier, sell service
not always great in that area of the world either.
And they, you know, in this meeting, like logistically they
were like, man, the taxpayers aren't going to put it down.
The money for all of this, this is money for it.
(10:51):
It's not just a huge town either. It's a big
it's a big town, but it's not like huge.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So they don't have a big tax base.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
No, not a big tax base at all. As recently,
they had a May budget meeting and they were discussing
a flood warning system being developed in May two months ago,
Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior
elected official, said, quote, taxpayers won't pay for it, man.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But even even like if you had.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
An alert system, there's inherent dangers with trying to get
that many people into buses and then get buses out
of arms way too. Yeah, the traffic involved, Like it's
almost like can you imagine just you know, because I
think that's what happened in the eighties in that in
that flood.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I mean I saw a bus busy.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You know, if buses are stopped in traffic, you know,
that's this happened so fast.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Yeah, there's there's no way you could be prepared for it,
I guess. I mean, yeah, the only way you can
be prepared for is like if you're the safest person
ever and you have to be the party pooper who's
ending camp, like, sorry, we're not gonna do this because
a storm's coming. They get storms every once in a while.
Look down there, like they had no idea. This is
a freak of nature thing that it just sat there
(12:04):
and didn't move.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
They do those, you know, I've seen them for for
if a tsunami comes and they build huge, like eight
story structures that are just a long ramp for everyone.
But how would you have enough money to build that
in Cerville?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, and this is the other thing that's coming off
of an ocean. This is just a winding river.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
This is way different. If this a storm's set on
top of the Trinity River. Yeah, you know, there would
be flooding and it would be bad in some parts,
but it wouldn't be that bad.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's just different down there.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Again, if you'd like to donate, join us today. Donate
to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund at Community Foundation
dot net, Community Foundation dot net again. All donations are
going to go directly to trusted local organizations to provide food, shelter, healthcare,
and hope. That's Community Foundation dot net all right. Coming
(12:52):
up next, we turn our attention to music news. Ozzie's
final show happened. We will discuss that next
It is a Monday on the benin Skin Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Thank you for tuning in and making us a part
of your daily routine.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We greatly appreciate you doing that.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We've got so much to get into before we get
out of here for today's show. But just know, if
you ever miss something, you can listen on the iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Just go to the iHeart app. It's totally free.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Search Ben and Skin and you'll find all of our
segments there as podcasts or individual shows wrapped up together
as one one hour podcast. But it's on the ihurt
iHeart app. Just search Ben in Skin. But right now
it's time for this.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
And now it's time for Basins week Day up Day
featuring veteran news anchor kt fun Tweets. Here are the
important stories he's currently tracking from.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Around the world.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Yeah, so, with some heavy rains battered parts of central
Texas this weekend, and there was some devastating flooding that
happened in the Hill Country. This is overnight, you know,
into early Friday morning, a big storm system set on
top of the area near Kerville, which is northwest of
San Antonio, and it's created really the word story we've
seen in the state since the Uvaldes school shooting.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I mean, it was devastating. I don't know that, you guys.
I thought about it all weekend.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Yeah, I it's I mean, totally different circumstances, but the
same sort of devastation.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
The hardest hit region was near a Christian girls camp
called Camp Mystic, right off the Guadalupe River, and Guadalupe
River rose somewhere between twenty and thirty feet, you know,
within a span of about ninety minutes, and the river
rises and you've got all kinds of problems. It dumped
(01:33):
more rain than anyone was expecting. This happened in the
over night hours as well, which is a big problem
if you're you know, a warning. I was thinking about
this too. You know, how often do we get a
flash flood warning here all the time? And I don't
really ever think much of it unless we know it's
just we're having crazy Maybe there's a hurricane that was
down south moving up. You know, I don't think about
(01:55):
it too much because we don't deal with that. This
is way different down there with the tapak and things
like that.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And you know, a.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Four am flash flood morning is a little different overnight,
and you gotta round everyone up and go and it's
it just the message just didn't get out to enough
people that this was gonna be really bad.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's the worst possible time, you know, for that to
happen at four am. Pitch dark Man and you know
the you know, immediately I thought of a couple different things.
But my daughter always goes to Christian summer camp. She
just came back not long ago, and now she goes
to Sky Ranch, which is in Van Texas. She doesn't
go there, but you know, there's this feeling of helplessness
(02:39):
when your child goes off to summer camp, especially the younger.
They are right and you're like, it's that first little
piece of independent freedom. They're on their own. But you
know they're in great hands. You know, she went on
a church trip, my daughter, to Florida, even to the ocean,
and those times you just kind of hand your kiddo
over and you're, golly, this is stressful, but I know
(03:01):
they're in great hands. They're going to be fine. You
never in a million years would think anything would happen
that would present danger.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Yeah, it's it's such a terrifying, horrible thing to read
about and see footage of and you know a lot
of people go down there and just camp down by
the river like my h In fact, Christina has done
something similar to that.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
You've gone camping. Didn't you go camping down in like
the golf area?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Uh No, I've only been camping up in Broken Bow before.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh I thought you went near my bed.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yeah, but my sister and brother in law they go
camping down near rivers all the time. And I think
I've even told you guys that story of me and
Trish going with them and kayaking with them, and you
kayak down the river and then you set up ten overnight,
you get back up and kayak the next day.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah. Didn't you have to go to the bathroom in
that story?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
I did, And it's it's a funny story, but this
is not a funny time.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I'll circle back and tell it next week.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
But I think you know, there's a lot of people
who are camping down in there, just families that were camping,
And I don't know how much time you guys spent
watching the news, but they'll do eyewitness accounts all these
sorts of things and stories where you know, the mom
and the dad made it out, but their two kids
were with the grandparents and they're missing a lot of
stuff like that. I don't know if you guys saw
(04:21):
the I believe eighty two year old man that started
and ran camp Mysstic. Yeah, he died trying to save people.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, everyone said he was awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He was a great dude.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
And there's there are a lot of families here in
the metroplex whose daughters were either traumatized by that might
still be missing or actually died in in our area.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Wow. How far away is that from here? Is that
like a five hour drive four and a half hour drive?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I guess me a little further than that man.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, growing up.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Here, I had always heard of the two, you know,
just and even since been a parent, the ones and
closest proximity sort of sky Rants of course, and then
Pine Cove, But I had not heard of this one.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I think it's primarily a girls Christian camp. I don't
believe it's it's both sex. I think it's just girls
from what I saw, And it's been around for a
long time, and so imagine, you know, there's camp counselors
that are in their early twenties or you know, in
some cases maybe even late teams. Imagine the feeling that
you're in charge of these teams and it's something that
(05:27):
firefighters can't even handle, right, seven or eight year old
first responders, right, and so you're suddenly in charge of
trying this, I mean just absolutely horrific stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, we're gonna we're gonna take a look at some
of the other stuff, some of the discussions. We're none
of the political stuff, we don't care about that, but
there are conversations about what could have been done to
prevent this, and we'll we'll we'll dive into that coming
up in just a few minutes. But we do want
to let you know that the need here is massive,
it is urgent, and iHeart has done due diligence and
they found, you know, reputable organization that you can donate to.
(06:00):
It's an easy website to remember, community foundation dot net.
Community foundation dot net. That is the website. All donations
will go directly to trusted local organizations to provide food, shelter, healthcare,
and hope. More on this coming up in just a
matter of three plus minutes.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
But me seven point one the Eagle, no doubt everyone's
mind is on what has happened in Kerr County, the flooding,
the tragy that's gone on down there, the loss of
life on a much lesser level, but still a huge
import the loss of property. It's just impacted countless residents,
and it has been brutal on our entire state. And
(06:41):
the need is urgent, and so iHeart, all of us
in the iheartfamily encourage you, if you can donate to
donate today to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund at
Communityfoundation dot net. That is the Community Foundation dot net.
It's the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund. All donations go
directly to trusted local organizations providing food, shelter, healthcare, hope
(07:05):
and more. So we would love it if you could donate.
That is the one that we encourage you to use
here at iHeart Kat. Why don't we pick up the
story we were just talking about, you know, sort of
the facts of the devastation down there, and now there's
a lot of conversation about what could have been done.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Yeah, and I'm more interested in what could have been
done from like what are some of the meteorologists saying
and things like that than I am the you know,
obviously there's a anytime anything big happens, it gets politicized immediately,
and I think that's very inappropriate right now. Yeah, but
there's a couple of meteorologists that have kind of spoken.
I know delcas has talked about it. I saw Rick
(07:42):
Mitchell from NBC five and he was explaining a diagram
and he was showing just like here this pressure system
that was in Lubbock. You know, we didn't think that
it was going to mesh with the Gulf of Mexico.
That pressure system totally weatherman talk here, you know, and
basically it caused He explained what caused that storm to
just sit there in the hill country and not really
(08:03):
move and just dump loads of rain on it. There
was another guy his named Steve McCauley, and I was
just gonna read you a little bit of what he wrote.
He said, after a linked to review of the forecast
dat if from early in the week, nearly all computer
models failed to predict the torrential rains that fell between
San Angelo and Currville. This was true for all but
(08:24):
one model, the higher resolution Canadian model, and it was
one of the only models of all the models they
used to pinpoint here's where it's gonna hit, and here's
how hard it's gonna hit. Although other models were not
telling them this. Now, I do know that a flash
flood watch was put out Friday and Thursday morning at
like eleven am. I think the flash flood warning hit
(08:44):
at one am, you know, Friday morning overnight.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's not like enough time.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
But also also by the way down in that area,
sell service it and good yeah, all over the place. Yeah,
you might be getting an alert that your phone's not
even getting.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And he had a whole take on it.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
He said there were other models that predicted over nineteen
inches of rain, but they too thought it would be
northeast of San Angelo, not right there where it was,
So none of the models were hitting this.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But dead on, nineteen inches of rain is one tenth
of what this was. This was two stories of flooding, right,
so it was twenty to thirty feet that's what.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, that's what's been reported.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Yeah, when you see it too, I mean, if you
look at that river when it's normal, it's just like
you know, Rocky and you can see down there and
you know, and then I don't know if you guys
saw the footage, I'm sure you did.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Suddenly it's all the way up to the overpasses.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And I saw footage of I guess it was a
flood that happened in the eighties or something.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay, nineteenies. Is this exact same place? Yes, the exact
same place, and it was it about the same level
of flood.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh, I'm not sure on that.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
So there's an article in Texas Monthly about this too,
because there was another flood about seventy five miles to
the east of this, but still in that hill country,
that rugged area where uh, they had a big flood.
The town was called Wimberley, and they had a big
meeting in Kirk County about what what can we do here?
Can we do a better job? Basically said this. They
(10:15):
knew about these summer camps too, and they said for years,
local officials kept them safe with a word of mouth system.
When floodwater water started raging up river, camp leaders warned
those downriver the water surge coming their way, and that's
just how they've always done it.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And they had a big.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Meeting about this eight years ago, like can we add sirens,
can we add river gauges and some other you know,
modern communication tools granted, like we mentioned earlier, sell service
not always great in that area of the world either.
And they, you know, in this meeting, like logistically they
were like, man, the taxpayers aren't going to put it down.
The money for all of this, this is money for it.
(10:51):
It's not just a huge town either. It's a big
it's a big town, but it's not like huge.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So they don't have a big tax base.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
No, not a big tax base at all. As recently,
they had a May budget meeting and they were discussing
a flood warning system being developed in May two months ago,
Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior
elected official, said, quote, taxpayers won't pay for it, man.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But even even like if you had.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
An alert system, there's inherent dangers with trying to get
that many people into buses and then get buses out
of arms way too. Yeah, the traffic involved, Like it's
almost like can you imagine just you know, because I
think that's what happened in the eighties in that in
that flood.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I mean I saw a bus busy.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You know, if buses are stopped in traffic, you know,
that's this happened so fast.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Yeah, there's there's no way you could be prepared for it,
I guess. I mean, yeah, the only way you can
be prepared for is like if you're the safest person
ever and you have to be the party pooper who's
ending camp, like, sorry, we're not gonna do this because
a storm's coming. They get storms every once in a while.
Look down there, like they had no idea. This is
a freak of nature thing that it just sat there
(12:04):
and didn't move.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
They do those, you know, I've seen them for for
if a tsunami comes and they build huge, like eight
story structures that are just a long ramp for everyone.
But how would you have enough money to build that
in Cerville?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, and this is the other thing that's coming off
of an ocean. This is just a winding river.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
This is way different. If this a storm's set on
top of the Trinity River. Yeah, you know, there would
be flooding and it would be bad in some parts,
but it wouldn't be that bad.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's just different down there.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Again, if you'd like to donate, join us today. Donate
to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund at Community Foundation
dot net, Community Foundation dot net again. All donations are
going to go directly to trusted local organizations to provide food, shelter, healthcare,
and hope. That's Community Foundation dot net all right. Coming
(12:52):
up next, we turn our attention to music news. Ozzie's
final show happened. We will discuss that next
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.