Texas flooding causes up to $22 billion in damage as businesses rally

The major societies and industries in central Texas were severely beaten by fatal floods. When the area begins to work to recover from the disaster, the local business community and others turn to help.

The regions in central Texas faced severe floods during the fourth long weekend of July, which led to the heavy rains, residents and destroyed companies alike. At least 119 people died.

Accuweather I mentioned Monday The damage and economic damage resulting from the floods can be in the range of 18-22 billion dollars in general.

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The camping industry is a major industry in Kerville and is one of the sectors that have been affected by the floods.

The head of the Chamber of Commerce in the Kurville region, Mindy Windly, “The countdown”, Liz Kalaman, host Liz Kalaman, said that the economic impact of the camping industry “is important with more than $ 40 million in the annual direct impact.”

She said: “They are a birth that is a wonderful 100 -year -old history in our industry here in Texas Hill Control and CARE province.” “And you take this from our economy, and it is certain that there is definitely an effect.”

The largest Care County industry is tourism, according to Lindel.

“We are employing more than 1,100 people in that industry, and as you can imagine, and now that we have this destruction in our area, it will affect many people.” “These are the direct effects, clearly. Then we have families that make up part of these 1100 plus.”

The person carries candles that read “Kerrville Strong” during the protest of the flood victims during the fourth weekend of July, in Travis Park, in San Antonio, Texas, on July 7, 2025. (Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Windl said that business leaders and society “in the streets are at the present time”, and they are “stocks and survey” for companies “as much as possible to know what their needs are” in the wake of the flood.

The founder of the fast food giant is progressing with a great donation to the victims

People of various professions and small business owners have turned to help affected societies, according to the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in the Kerrville region.

She added: “We had a large group of people in a building yesterday who took completely to the help of people, seriously, everything from dog food to lentils to kitchen that comes out of kitchens so that these restaurants and resorts can.”

The Kerrville Chamber of Commerce has established this week to help companies with recovery efforts. He received a mandate to start sending money on Wednesday morning, according to Wendele.

Search and rescue workers are digging through debris looking for any survivors or residue of people who swept away and amazing floods on July 6, 2025 in Hunt, Texas. (Jim Vondruska / Getty Images / Getty Images)

“At this time last week, no one of us thought we would be in this situation,” she said. “But here, we all really join hands and work very hard. The business community takes care of the community.”

Companies such as Home Depot, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Apple, Airbnb and Low are also providing assistance to the affected Texas societies. Raising Cane’s, a Fast Foods Restaurant, which specializes in chicken fingers, was recently announced, through its founder, Todd Graves, which offers a $ 1 million donation to the Red Cross to help destroy.

The major relief companies provide disasters for the destroyed Texas societies after the deadly floods

“We are very grateful” for the support of companies like that.

Claman asked her about what Texas, which affected the floods, etc., besides the money.

“We need prayers and need gift cards, and perhaps this arrangement,” Windel said, noting that the room has set up a system for “classifying these gift cards so that we can deliver people to people for immediate help.”