Are you seeing the benefits of that?

absolutely you know we have invested deeply in getting people home again putting people up in temporary housing while they figure out their next steps helping people that lived in dangerous places who cannot rebuild to seek down payment assistance and move elsewhere helping people relocate to other communities that are less flood prone in the hill country we've also deeply invested in mental health which is now a nonprofit mental health infrastructure in our community that absolutely will be activated.

So they're definitely going to need, you know, help.

Absolutely.

We have invested in some wonderful organizations like the Children's Bereavement Center of South Texas, which has set up programming here in the Hill Country.

We've invested in Hill Country MHDD, which is based out of Kerrville that is supporting mental health first responders throughout the community and throughout the region, as well as several other mental health organizations that are going to help people going through kind of opening up old, old pains and old wounds from last year.

Is there anything that you want to share with us about them and what they meant to this community?

Thank you.

Um, yes, it's- that is my experience and my experience is emblematic of so many people in our community.

Kerrville is a town of about 25,000 people in a county of- Kerr County of 50,000 people.

Everybody knows everybody.

And so in a tragic event like this, we're all connected to people who have been lost.

Uh, I was personal friends with three people, uh, who were swept away and have been identified as deceased at this time, and I'm also family friends with someone who lost one of their granddaughters who was a camper at Camp Mystic.

Do you, do you agree with that? What is it like on the ground right now?