Texas Flood volunteers share emotional stories helping Kerville victims

Jennis Riley took off her shoe, thinking that a rock was trapped inside, when she was working voluntarily in the flood-vicious Kerville, Texas, but was surprised to find a folded nail in the sole, only a centimeter from her foot.

“It reminds me of the poem that says, ‘How many beautiful legs that bring good news’, she said laughing.”

The relay was working with the Gwadalup River, but the nail did not stop him cleaning the mud -soaked houses and tried to destroy the destroyed life together.

As she moved into every house, she saw that the water stains were marked with water stains several feet high on the wall.

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Removing the cow, while sweeping the houses for installation, the relay ran away as a house owner in search of a meaningful family heritage in the sea of debris and dirt.

Between the debris, the relay was already filled with mold and silver on a wooden box. As he and the homeowner opened it, a breath of relief defeated him, as the survivor prayed that she would find it.

“You can’t help, but cry over his enthusiasm to find those treasures,” Riley said. “It would not mean anything to us, but it meant something for him.”

For the relay, this is what matters, and she will remember that voluntarily the main attraction. But then she stopped. The moment she covered the seriousness of her community status, she started crying.

“It is never going to return normally soon,” he said. “There is still water at the crossing of low water, and how much the river is destroyed, and the area.”

Tears started flowing. Once the beautiful ps. trees, decades old, who stood beautifully, are now gone. He said that he feels that nothing is going to happen.

“It just sinks in a way, it’s not like a week and will pass it a month, and we will return back to normal,” he said.

The remaining face from the new reality is something that Mitchell Annet has seen as a volunteer for the Salvation Army, where flood -affected warehouses and donations are escaping.

As soon as she arrived, on the first day, she was assigned to hold clothes donations to the victims. Looks quite easy. Until Angate was given a direction which did not sit right with her.

“If you come on any fabric items, which you think can be used for the funeral for potentially the victims, then they were put in the compartment here,” Michel was told. “We are going to set them aside.”

Then he hit him.

“If I take out a good dress or something that was donated, I have to think, it would be something that I want to be buried in my sister, or my aunt is buried or something else?” He thought.

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For him, it is more than just one bin. It represents humanity. Once full of life, how can one start an organization to encounter a stranger’s body?

Not far away, Lisa Aguilan, a resident of San Antonio, was also a moment with death she could not shake.

As he left for Kerville with friends in his ministry van, he looked a terrible film scene. Men used to cloudy smoke as they used chainsaw to cut through a huge mound of trees. The rhythmic hupping increased vigorously in the air as search helicopters made their way to disappear. Then came the moment that changed him.

“I noticed that a body came out of a river in a bag,” he said. “I was very angry with God at that drive’s house. Why, God, did you let those children pass in such a frightening way?” He asked.

As he considered that question, the Anett Salvation remained in the Army, who was trying to stay in the present and focus on the survivors in the warehouse. The more it flows, the more heartbreaking stories he will hear.

A man whose house was washed was standing outside.

Annett said, “There was nothing but clothes on his back and shoes on his feet. He did not have his ID, and he did not have a car.”

He handed him underwear, a razor and a shirt. At that time, Annett felt that they would have to rebuild their lives with those objects.

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Seeing the debris in Kerville, Aguilan understood that even with donations, the remaining people had very little. As he reflected, she was more inspired to create a difference.

Aguilen knew that she could rely on contacts with her insurance company, Texas United Insurance Services, LLC, which is for donations for a larger reason than herself.

“I came to the office this week and started calling the owner of every business in my book,” he said.

So far, he has raised $ 5,000 and plan to drive back to Kerville and handed it over to the needy people. Although she feels that it cannot be a lot of money, she says that every bit matters.

“I want to see these people going to bank and cash and keep cash in hand,” he said. “I can bless many, many families with $ 500, and this is what I intend to do.”

Although the volunteers, relay, antenate and Eguilane had to face difficulty spending hours while keeping themselves through hard work, they realized that their service was in their community and brought power to the lives of those they were serving.

Anetate expressed it in a word.

“Time,” he said. “This is our most valuable object, and what makes it so valuable is that we cannot make it more.