KERRVILLE, Texas — Neighbors helping neighbors is how the Texas Hill Country pushed forward after last summer’s flood. The group Found On The Guadalupe River has gone from reuniting folks with lost items in 2025 to helping however they can this time around.

“Volunteers from last year are back at it,” said community organizer Dondi Persyn with Found On The Guadalupe River.

Assisting with flood recovery again isn’t what Persyn expected for 2026.

“We were just getting through the one-year mark,” Persyn said. “A lot of us were starting to let our shoulders down a bit.”

After the 2025 flood devastated the Texas Hill Country, Persyn started the nonprofit Found on the Guadalupe River, reuniting folks with their lost items. 

“They need bins,” Persyn said. “People are trying to save what’s salvageable. And it’s kind of what we were doing last year, salvaging what matters to people.”

They’re back once again, helping in Kerrville after another summer flood.

“The first week in recovery we’ve addressed 33 plus houses,” Persyn said. “We’ve mucked out. We’ve bought an RV.”

The Found On The Guadalupe River volunteers have organized a bin distribution site at 213 West Schreiner St., giving away hundreds of bins each day.

“Whatever you need, and there’s more coming,” Persyn said.

It’s a place for folks to donate supplies and take whatever they need.

“Some of these neighborhoods are completely decimated, and they need as much support as possible,” Persyn said.

Persyn said donations are keeping this mission going.

“A dumpster donated here on the property,” Persyn said. “We got a port-a-potty donated like a street over.”

But she said neighbors and churches can only do so much. This time around, Kerr County is going to need even more help.

“The amount of damage is so widespread that it’s going to take way more volunteers than we have,” Persyn said. “And way more organizations than we have.”

As folks grab what they need, some tell a little of their story.

“Oh my god, is that your ceiling?” asked Persyn in shock.

“This is the first year its ever happened,” one Kerrville resident responded.

Many people are in disbelief that they’re living through another rebuild so soon.

“We’re going to be here as long as the community needs us,” Persyn said. “That’s what we do at Found. We just keep showing up and try to fill the need as much as possible.”