Austin – for more than 40 days, Arturo Ramon was serving meals – on his own – to volunteers who respond and members of society affected by destroyed and deadly floods in Kiir Province.
Now, it’s time to return home – but the message he wants to share is that working to help rebuild will continue for a long time.
“You can see a kind of transition that is happening now,” Ramon said, recalling how in the early days many of the first respondents nourishing, but now they are working to clean tons and tons of debris. “But there will be a need to help here, and financial assistance, for several months to come.”
Ramon stayed for the first time at a fire station at Center Point, where the Guadalobi River penetrates into society in the middle of the road between Comfort and Kerrville on the 27th Highway in The Hill Country. He ended his work west there in another town located on this river: Hunt. Beyond the river from Hunt is summer camps, including the Mystic camp where 27 of the camp and the consultant were killed when the water rose throughout the night.
During the fourth weekend of July, more than 117 people were killed in the floods in Kiir Province. On Thursday, Ramon spoke with the KXan Brianna Hollis correspondent in FaceTime and showed her the area near the Hunt store (now just a “building shell”) where he set up two smugglers. The stain became a center for meals and supplies.
“It still seems that the bomb came out here, as you know,” he said.
On the same day that his observations participated, the Community Corporation in Texas Hill Control has announced $ 40 million of donations that will go directly to help people affected to find places to stay and rebuild. The population must Submit an application for this online financing.
Ramon – who owns Blanco River Company, said about two hours from Hunt, in Driftwood – his last day that offers meals on Friday. But he accomplished what Kaxan first told that he intended to do: Cook for the heroes.
“Everyone wants to help.” “Then, as you know, people return to their normal lives, and this is a natural thing. But this-the damage that is here-will take months, in fact years, to return to the place where things feel almost normal.”
KXan Brianna Hollis correspondent contributed to this report.