New Rescue Stories From The Historic Texas Flood ~ Plus: A Closer Look At "Flash Flood Alley"
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Three key voices on the historic Texas flood that underscore key facts of the story. Plus ~ a bonus: For the first time, Kerrville Community Service Officer Jonathan Lamb reveals new, never-before-heard rescue stories from the tragic flood.
Our interview with Julia Hatfield, who experienced the Kerrville flood
Incredible graphics from The Austin-American Statesman
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It is Wednesday, July 9th, around midday here in Central Texas. |
| 0:11.6 | And I thought I would just jump on for a brief update. It feels like a good time to catch our breath a little bit, still covering this emerging story in central Texas. And I say |
| 0:22.5 | emerging because it's still very much developing in the wake of this historic flood in Kerr County |
| 0:27.8 | and beyond. Today, what I'd like to do is take some of the key soundbites that we've heard |
| 0:33.2 | over the last 24 hours and just highlight them for you. In typical, in typical traditional media where I used to work for a long time, |
| 0:40.7 | you could run a sound bite that was as short as just a few seconds to maybe 30, |
| 0:45.4 | 45 seconds. |
| 0:46.3 | And then anything longer than that was, you know, sort of considered too long, |
| 0:50.6 | too much for regular television, too much to be a waste of time for your audience. And I'm so |
| 0:55.0 | glad we don't have the same restrictions in how we're delivering news today, because I have a few |
| 0:59.7 | sound bites here that we're going to need to play and sit with for a little bit. And this is |
| 1:03.9 | something that is unique to the format that we're able to broadcast on. And I'm so grateful for |
| 1:09.9 | it in a situation like the one we're in, |
| 1:12.6 | where the 24-hour news cycle or these quick, you know, sort of soundbites that you're seeing, |
| 1:18.0 | just at times can feel very disrespectful to the story that we're covering. |
| 1:22.4 | And I was thinking about this story, and we were talking about it along with my colleagues at Smarter News, |
| 1:27.2 | about why this story feels different. You know, along with my colleagues at Smarter News about why this |
| 1:28.2 | story feels different. We've covered so many different, quite frankly, terrible stories in the |
| 1:33.9 | news over the last several years of smarter news. We've covered a lot of really bad storms, |
| 1:38.5 | including the ones just late last year in North Carolina and in Florida. And so how does this compare and how does our coverage |
| 1:45.9 | now compare to the coverage in the past in different news cycles? And are we doing the right things? |
| 1:50.8 | Are we making the right choices? And I came to sort of this realization about this story that |
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