Central Texas Flood Support's Disaster Relief Fund

On Friday, July 4th, Independence day celebrations moved indoors as watersheds started to fill. By the time night fell, flooding had started to wreck havoc on areas surrounding creeks and rivers. By the day's end, many began to hear about the flooding in Kerrville, which tragically took dozens of lives.

By Saturday, July 5th, Travis County had also been devastated by flooding - mutual aid networks across the region heard Hill Country’s cries and began to mobilize and organize. Over the next few days, veterans, street medics, firefighters, and emergency responders—both local and national—stepped up where government leadership failed. Floodwaters had overwhelmed the community, causing needless deaths and destruction, yet officials did nothing.

Organizers from Houston and San Antonio came to Central Texas to set up clinics, conduct search and recovery. Austin Mutual Aid tirelessly worked to find hotel rooms and get food for flood victims. Volunteers from all over central TX mobilized, working 7 days before help from officials even came.

These volunteers are not trained emergency responders. They are people of conscience who refuse to wait as loved ones drowned, while children cried out for help that never came.

Our volunteers remained steadfast and listened to the people who were asking for help, even when County officials dismissed it as misinformation. It is up to us to bear witness to this collective trauma, community resilience, and the power of mutual aid communities & to continue to tell the stories of the people on the ground instead of dismissing them based on official narratives.

Neither the volunteers nor the flood victims had access to the fundraisers or resources that were deployed to Kerrville. This was a completely self-funded, self-organized operation. While some help has come, the burden still falls heavily on victims and volunteers.

This mutual aid fund will be used to reimburse expenses and provide financial aid to both the flood victimized and volunteers who have taken off work and spent their own money taking care of neighbors.