KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 Neighbors helping neighbors is how the Texas Hill Country pushed forward after last summer\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cVolunteers from last year are back at it,\u201d said community organizer Dondi Persyn with Found On The Guadalupe River.<\/p>\n
Assisting with flood recovery again isn\u2019t what Persyn expected for 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were just getting through the one-year mark,\u201d Persyn said. \u201cA lot of us were starting to let our shoulders down a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the 2025 flood devastated the Texas Hill Country, Persyn started the nonprofit Found on the Guadalupe River, reuniting folks with their lost items.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need bins,\u201d Persyn said. \u201cPeople are trying to save what\u2019s salvageable. And it\u2019s kind of what we were doing last year, salvaging what matters to people.\u201d<\/p>\n
They\u2019re back once again, helping in Kerrville after another summer flood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first week in recovery we\u2019ve addressed 33 plus houses,\u201d Persyn said. \u201cWe\u2019ve mucked out. We\u2019ve bought an RV.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever you need, and there\u2019s more coming,\u201d Persyn said.<\/p>\n
It’s a place for folks to donate supplies and take whatever they need.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of these neighborhoods are completely decimated, and they need as much support as possible,\u201d Persyn said.<\/p>\n
Persyn said donations are keeping this mission going.<\/p>\n
\u201cA dumpster donated here on the property,\u201d Persyn said. \u201cWe got a port-a-potty donated like a street over.\u201d<\/p>\n
But she said neighbors and churches can only do so much. This time around, Kerr County is going to need even more help.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe amount of damage is so widespread that it\u2019s going to take way more volunteers than we have,\u201d Persyn said. \u201cAnd way more organizations than we have.\u201d<\/p>\n
As folks grab what they need, some tell a little of their story.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh my god, is that your ceiling?\u201d asked Persyn in shock.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first year its ever happened,\u201d one Kerrville resident responded.<\/p>\n
Many people are in disbelief that they\u2019re living through another rebuild so soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to be here as long as the community needs us,\u201d Persyn said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we do at Found. We just keep showing up and try to fill the need as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KERRVILLE, Texas \u2014 Neighbors helping neighbors is how the Texas Hill Country pushed forward after last summer\u2019s flood.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21023,3564,132,3565,223,82,27,1659,29,28,1569,835],"class_list":["post-387312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-amber-hughes","tag-app-community","tag-austin","tag-community-news","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-floods","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387312","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=387312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}