For a closer look at how people on the ground are managing the crisis, we turn now to Austin Dixon, the CEO of the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, which has been collecting donations through the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund to help recovery efforts. Austin, welcome to the News Hour. Thanks for joining us.

Hello, Anna. So I just can't say enough how much our thoughts are with you and with everyone in the

community.

I understand you actually knew personally some of the leaders at Camp Mystic and others who

were tragically lost in these floods.

We're so sorry for your loss.

Is there anything that you want to share with us about them and what they

meant to this community? Thank you. Yes, that is my experience and my experience is

emblematic of so many people in our community. Kerrville is a town of about 25,000 people in a

county of Kirk County of 50,000 people. Everybody knows everybody. And so in a tragic event like this, we're all connected to people who have been lost. I was personal friends with three people who were swept away and have been identified as deceased at this time. And I'm also family friends with someone who lost one of their

granddaughters who was a camp or a camp mystic. My contacts who were swept away that I knew,

one was our high school soccer coach. He and his wife and two children were swept away. I also worked very closely on many projects

with the pillar of our community, Dick Eastland, who was an owner and director of Camp Mystic,

who died during the flood, saving girl campers on his property. And I also knew Jane Ragsdale,

who was the director and owner of Har the Hills

Camp, another summer camp in Hunt area. These folks are just a few of the names of people who have died.

Pillars of the community have given their all to our area and to Texas and ultimately lost their lives in this flood.

Awesome. We're so very sorry for your loss and for everyone else is there.

And we should share that your home, thankfully, your family are safe amid all of this.

But we've seen from the pictures how deep and how devastating the damage is.

We heard Lieutenant Governor

Dan Patrick earlier saying this is the toughest disaster he has ever been a part of in the state

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