{"id":377011,"date":"2026-07-17T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377011\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:08:25","slug":"how-to-get-help-or-support-texans-affected-by-hill-country-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377011\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get help or support Texans affected by Hill Country flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerr County residents can go to:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uvalde County residents can go to:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration runs the Disaster Distress Helpline, which supports people experiencing emotional distress related to disasters, including flooding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People can call or text the helpline at 800-985-5990.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Residents are encouraged to file insurance claims through their existing policies before seeking federal assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Insurance has a consumer help line\u00a0for assistance with filing a claim at 800-252-3439.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA generally cannot provide financial assistance for a disaster-related need already covered by insurance or another source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerr County residents can go to:\u00a0 Uvalde County residents can go to:\u00a0 The Substance Abuse and Mental Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-377011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}