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Victoria County urges residents not to self-deploy, coordinates donations after Kerr County floods
Summary
At its July 7 meeting, the Victoria County Commissioners Court heard a detailed briefing on the July 4 flooding in the Hill Country, was urged to consolidate donations for Kerr County, and was advised not to self-deploy to the disaster area.
Victoria County officials on July 7 heard a multi-department briefing on the early‑July flood event centered in Kerr County and urged residents and local volunteers not to self-deploy to the disaster area, while coordinating countywide financial donations.
During the Commissioners Court meeting, emergency management staff described intense rainfall in the Hill Country on July 4 and asked the public to send money through a coordinated county effort rather than travel to the affected area. A county official said the Guadalupe River gauge near Kerrville rose from about 1.73 feet at 3:45 a.m. to nearly 23 feet within roughly an hour and a half, a rise the presenter said is roughly equivalent to the height of a two‑story house.
The court was told Canyon Reservoir (Canyon Lake) had capacity to absorb…
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