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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Seven fifty one at a time here on the Houston's
Morning News. All right, we're trying to establish contact with
the AGG Commissioner if he's anywhere near the hill Country.
You know, sometimes the cell phone service can get a
little sketchy out there. I'm not sure what the normal
population in Kerrville is. I want to say it's like
maybe five or six thousand people. I'm not so sure
that that hasn't doubled over the course the last couple
(00:25):
of days between the federal response, the state response, and
the media response. As you can imagine, you know, all
of the morning shows pretty much are there. All the
television morning shows are there. Representative Chip Roy is there.
I just saw Senator Ted Cruz. He's there in Kerrville.
So there's a lot of a lot of people who
(00:46):
are there at this point, hopefully more more help than
getting in the way. The ad Commissioner joins us Now,
Commissioner Miller, welcome to our show. I'm assumed that you've
been out to the Hill Country. Tell us a little
bit about what you've seen you're there, sir, Yes, okay,
(01:07):
can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Go right ahead? Then good it tell us a little
bit about what you've seen so far.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, you know, it's just devastating.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Just so much water came through there that you know,
Guadalalupe River, it was equivalent of the water that goes
through Niagara Falls in a month and a half.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's hard to get my head around. Wow, that is
a tremendous amount of water.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Of course, we're we're now up to eighty two people
you know, deceased in the twenty one counties that this
is affected. We're still over forty people missing, so this
could go well over one hundred people. That that is
very very tragic agriculture damage. You know, since I'm the
Agriculture commissioner, we're you know, we're on top of that
(01:54):
right now. We're more focused or only focused on rescue mission.
We're going to assume that those forty something people are
still alive, so we will get the numbers on the
agriculture damage, uh, you know, at some point later. But
I can tell you that there's hundreds of miles of
fencing gone, barns and outbuildings and structures gone, farm the
(02:18):
market roads, gone bridges, gone power lines down.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No power.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
We're finding livestock like cattle, sheep and goats in the
top of trees, a lot of dead animals. We've got
you know, tractors, underwater implements swept down river, irrigation systems
swept out, gone crops, gone crops underwater.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So it's it's gonna be very, very devastating. My go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm just gonna say, mature, you've been doing this a
long time, and you've seen a lot of natural disasters
here in Texas. Where do you think this one ranks?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, this is going to be a loss of life,
one of the largest. Uh And and hey, we're not
out of the woods yet. I just listened to your
weather report. We're still under flash flood watch and across
most of the state.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We have twenty one counties that have been declared disaster areas.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So you know, that's about a tenth first state and
it's very serious. Now, my agency, we have a part
in the emergency manager response.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I have the fun called the STAR Fund, which is
State of Texas Agriculture Relief.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
That's money that I raised some individuals, you know, publican
private entities, and we get that money back out to
those farmers and ranchers to help them get back on
their feet. Cover things that you know, insurance wouldn't cover,
like burying dead animals, buying fence.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Posts and wire and things like that. I also have
a Hay and Feed hotline.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
If anyone wants to donate Hey your feed, or if
you need hay your feed, you know, call us. You
can find all this at Texas Agriculture dot And thirdly,
most important of all is my mental health help line.
It's called agu Stress. It's it's a place where people
can go to get you know, mental anguish and dealt
(04:13):
with suicide, you know thoughts AGU Stress. I've had that
up running about three years. I'm gonna give you the
number of that one. But you can also find a
Texas Agriculture dot gov. It's eight three three eight nine
seven two four seven for eight three three, eight nine
seven two four seven four.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We man that you know, twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Around the clock, and we have people there that are
willing to, you know, help people that are going through
some really tough times.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
All right, Commissioner, and we will send everybody to your
website again, Texas Agriculture dot gov if you'd like to
find ways that you can help. Thank you for your time, sir.
We do appreciate it. Take care out there, give our
best of the folks out there. It's it's a horrible day.
I know that
Seven fifty one at a time here on the Houston's
Morning News. All right, we're trying to establish contact with
the AGG Commissioner if he's anywhere near the hill Country.
You know, sometimes the cell phone service can get a
little sketchy out there. I'm not sure what the normal
population in Kerrville is. I want to say it's like
maybe five or six thousand people. I'm not so sure
that that hasn't doubled over the course the last couple
(00:25):
of days between the federal response, the state response, and
the media response. As you can imagine, you know, all
of the morning shows pretty much are there. All the
television morning shows are there. Representative Chip Roy is there.
I just saw Senator Ted Cruz. He's there in Kerrville.
So there's a lot of a lot of people who
(00:46):
are there at this point, hopefully more more help than
getting in the way. The ad Commissioner joins us Now,
Commissioner Miller, welcome to our show. I'm assumed that you've
been out to the Hill Country. Tell us a little
bit about what you've seen you're there, sir, Yes, okay,
(01:07):
can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Go right ahead? Then good it tell us a little
bit about what you've seen so far.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, you know, it's just devastating.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Just so much water came through there that you know,
Guadalalupe River, it was equivalent of the water that goes
through Niagara Falls in a month and a half.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's hard to get my head around. Wow, that is
a tremendous amount of water.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Of course, we're we're now up to eighty two people
you know, deceased in the twenty one counties that this
is affected. We're still over forty people missing, so this
could go well over one hundred people. That that is
very very tragic agriculture damage. You know, since I'm the
Agriculture commissioner, we're you know, we're on top of that
(01:54):
right now. We're more focused or only focused on rescue mission.
We're going to assume that those forty something people are
still alive, so we will get the numbers on the
agriculture damage, uh, you know, at some point later. But
I can tell you that there's hundreds of miles of
fencing gone, barns and outbuildings and structures gone, farm the
(02:18):
market roads, gone bridges, gone power lines down.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No power.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
We're finding livestock like cattle, sheep and goats in the
top of trees, a lot of dead animals. We've got
you know, tractors, underwater implements swept down river, irrigation systems
swept out, gone crops, gone crops underwater.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So it's it's gonna be very, very devastating. My go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm just gonna say, mature, you've been doing this a
long time, and you've seen a lot of natural disasters
here in Texas. Where do you think this one ranks?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, this is going to be a loss of life,
one of the largest. Uh And and hey, we're not
out of the woods yet. I just listened to your
weather report. We're still under flash flood watch and across
most of the state.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We have twenty one counties that have been declared disaster areas.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So you know, that's about a tenth first state and
it's very serious. Now, my agency, we have a part
in the emergency manager response.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I have the fun called the STAR Fund, which is
State of Texas Agriculture Relief.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
That's money that I raised some individuals, you know, publican
private entities, and we get that money back out to
those farmers and ranchers to help them get back on
their feet. Cover things that you know, insurance wouldn't cover,
like burying dead animals, buying fence.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Posts and wire and things like that. I also have
a Hay and Feed hotline.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
If anyone wants to donate Hey your feed, or if
you need hay your feed, you know, call us. You
can find all this at Texas Agriculture dot And thirdly,
most important of all is my mental health help line.
It's called agu Stress. It's it's a place where people
can go to get you know, mental anguish and dealt
(04:13):
with suicide, you know thoughts AGU Stress. I've had that
up running about three years. I'm gonna give you the
number of that one. But you can also find a
Texas Agriculture dot gov. It's eight three three eight nine
seven two four seven for eight three three, eight nine
seven two four seven four.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We man that you know, twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Around the clock, and we have people there that are
willing to, you know, help people that are going through
some really tough times.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
All right, Commissioner, and we will send everybody to your
website again, Texas Agriculture dot gov if you'd like to
find ways that you can help. Thank you for your time, sir.
We do appreciate it. Take care out there, give our
best of the folks out there. It's it's a horrible day.
I know that
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