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Booles, Texas – In the vicinity of great tragedy, it is often a creepy stillness, as if any loud noise or sudden movements could trigger the natural rage again. This is what it feels like in this town this week Kerr County Flood District There are more than 100 places where souls perish.
Within hours of the flash flooding on Friday, Boerne (pronounced like Bernie), and nearby towns such as Fredrickburg and Feelfare, have assembled supplies and arranged volunteers for their flooded neighbors. That’s what they do here.
I met Dick outside the Black Rifle Coffee Cafe on the street. He retired and has lived in town for 25 years, and he told me: “Everyone has it.
When I asked Dick if he was surprised by the positive response from the community, he told me: “Not at all, this is what we look like,” adding, “You know this area was founded by German free thinkers in the 19th century, do they want to be free?
Dick has lived outside the Black Rifle Coffee Cafe on Boerne Street for 25 years and said the environmentally friendly people helped each other. (Fox News figures)
As we talked under the unparalleled beauty of the same Texas sky that caused this damage last week, we saw and heard a lot of equipment on the back of the flat bed, heading to Kerr County.
Dick is not the first to raise these mountain and rural roots to me. Even on my plane, the woman next to me who lives in the area gave me a brief history of the free thinker and her influence, an immigrant from Colombia.
Later that day, I spoke to Kristen, who lives in Fredericksburg, and told me she knew it looked awful early Friday. At first there was no news coverage, she was angry: “Then we heard about the camp and the girl was missing, it was a gut feeling.”
Clint Sanders, owner of Bunker Branding, said he and his wife are figuring out how to meet in flooded neighbors. (Fox News figures)
By Saturday morning, she and her friends brought supplies to the town of Schuster, which would have turned the legendary local fireworks show into an emergency center.
It’s also about Boerne Chabbad’s Rabbi Yosef Marrus not only began collecting supplies, but also contacted the organization’s headquarters in Brooklyn to start a nationwide fundraising campaign.
“The Jewish community on the hill is small, Marus told me,” but we are honored to be here and have to help. We are all Americans. ”
Marrus highlights the importance of finding out what specific content the region needs. In one case, the fire department incorporated food donations, but there were not enough refrigerators to store them. Not long after, Chabbad purchased two refrigerators and delivered them.
One of the central locations for Marrus and others to perform supplies is Boerne’s Blanker brand, owned by Clint Sanders and his wife Jenna, with events Monday morning.
Suppliers pile up in Bunker’s brand, where owners Chris and Jenna Sanders stock aid to help flood victims. (Fox News figures)
“We brand a lot of websites, so we have a way to say it, we need to do something, we have this warehouse space,” Clint told me.
He took me through the facilities. There are different items around, and the trailer outside needs to be packaged. Sanders also told me that finding out what is really needed is the key. “We have a lot of donated clothes upstairs, but they don’t need them right now. Maybe they will next week.”
I was impressed by my actions and I said to Sanders, “How do you and your wife know what to do?” He didn’t miss any rhythm and said with a smile, “We don’t.”
Fox News audiences and readers can donate directly to the relief efforts by scanning the QR code. (Fox News)
This is indeed the most impressive part of all of this. After 20 feet of water rose 20 feet in 45 minutes, no average person really knew what to do, but with the help of state, local and federal authorities, they learned the work at an incredible pace.
Perhaps, given that so many children’s lives are particularly terrible, people need to do something to stay busy.
A thousand yard gaze would pop into their eyes as my conversation stood out a few times when I lost so many kids. How does a person understand?
Here, I believe, seeing the selfless efforts of these tough Texans in Boerne, I believe that the German free thinkers who settled on this land 175 years ago are very proud of the community they have created today.
As Americans, we should be proud of them too.
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