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After devastating floods a Central Texas community comes together

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

It's been nearly a week since devastating flooding tore through Kerr County, Texas killing more than a hundred people.

Now, after unimaginable tragedy, residents are coming together to help each other move forward.

NPR's Juana Summers and producers Erika Ryan and Tyler Bartlam visited the City West Church, which has transformed from a house of worship into a pop up food distribution site serving thousands of meals to the community and first responders.

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0:00.0

It's been nearly a week since devastating flooding tore through Kerr County, Texas, killing more than 100 people.

0:07.6

Sitting between the towns of Kerrville and Ingram is the city West Church.

0:12.2

This House of Worship has been transformed into a pop-up food distribution site.

0:18.0

Volunteers line each side of folding tables, scooping prepared food into containers

0:22.5

before loading those meals into boxes.

0:25.2

They're singing as they pack.

0:28.3

Some of those meals will stay here at this church to feed first responders and people

0:33.5

who come to a drive-through, but most will be dispatched out across the community.

0:39.2

This massive operation to feed thousands of impacted people and first responders is organized

0:45.0

by a Virginia-based nonprofit called Mercy Chefs. CEO Gary LeBlanc said the group started

0:53.0

mobilizing on July 4th and had its first meal service the next day.

0:57.5

Staff came from outside of Texas, but it relies on local volunteers to fill containers full of hot meals and help them reach the hungry.

1:06.8

Everybody here in Kerr County lost someone or knows someone that lost someone.

1:14.3

So for those 70 or 100 volunteers that are with us, every day it's therapy for them.

1:20.2

LeBlanc says they're providing as many as 5,000 hot meals to the community here each day.

1:26.7

Consider this.

1:28.0

Flooding has devastated the communities of Texas Hill Country, but even after the

1:32.9

unimaginable, residents are coming together to help each other move forward.

1:40.7

From NPR, I'm Juana Summers.

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