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NewsNation on MSN‘We’ll be back,’ says manager of Kerr County’s historic Hunt StoreK ERR COUNTY, Texas ( NewsNation) — The manager of Kerr County ’s historic Hunt Store says she has “no doubt” the community icon will be rebuilt after being destroyed in recent flooding.
Renee Smajstrla, a 8-year-old straight-A student from Ingram, Texas, who had played a role in her school’s production of “The Wizard of Oz,” was one of the victims who died in the flash floods at Camp Mystic, her family said.
Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central Texas over the holiday weekend.
In the wake of disaster, people are relying on the volunteer fire department, the backbone of the Hill Country.
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A Houston woman whose family has owned property along the Guadalupe River for 100 years describes the unprecedented nature of the flood disaster.
The deadly Texas floods have brought the state's approach to land approvals, especially in flood-prone areas, under more scrutiny.
Thad Heartfield received a call from his son at 4 a.m. on July 4 as water began rising in his vacation house near the Guadalupe River in Hunt.
Thad Heartfield and his family are in Hunt searching for his son Aidan, and other victims who were swept away by floodwaters over the July 4th weekend.