Flood of Texas causes up to $ 22 billion in damage if companies gather

Communities and large industries in Central Texas were recently hit hard by fatal floods. While the area starts to work to recover from the disaster, local business and others have turned out to help.

Areas in the center of Texas were confronted with serious floods during the long fourth July holiday weekend, which was caused by heavy rainfallDestroying residents and companies. At least 119 people died.

Accouutty Reported Monday that the damage and the resulting economic loss of the floods in general can be in the range of $ 18-22 billion.

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The camping industry is an important industry in Kerrville and is one of the sectors affected by the flooding.

Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Mindy Wendele said to “The Claman Countdown” host Liz Claman that the economic impact of the camping industry “is considerable with more than $ 40 million in annual direct impact.”

“They are a generator who is such a beautiful, 100-year history of our industry here in the Texas Hill Country and Kerr County,” she said. “And you get that from our economy and of course there is definitely an impact.”

The best industry of Kerr County is tourism, according to Wendele.

“We employ more than 1,100 people in that industry and, as you can imagine, now that we have this destruction in our area, it will influence many people,” she told Claman. “And those are of course direct consequences. Then we have the families who are part of those 1,100 plus people.”

A person has a candles that reads “Kerrville Strong” during a wake for the victims of the floods on the fourth July weekend, in Travis Park, in San Antonio, Texas, on July 7, 2025. (Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP via Getty Images / Getty images)

Wendele said that business and community leaders are “on the street now” and his “inventory and investigations” companies “as they can to see what their needs are” in the aftermath of the floods.

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People from different professions and owners of small companies have proven to help influence the communities, according to the CEO of Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce.

“We had a room full of people in my building yesterday who left completely to help people, seriously, everything, from dog food to chainsaws to the expansions of kitchens so that these restaurants and resorts can open,” she added.

The Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce has created a “rebuilding and recovery fund” this week to help companies with their recovery efforts to which people have made donations. According to Wendele, it was authorized to send funds on Wednesday morning.

Search and rescue employees dig through debris looking for survivors or remains of people who were swept in Hunt on July 6, 2025. (Jim Vondruska / Getty Images / Getty images)

“This time last week none of us thought we would be in this situation,” she said. “But here we are, and we are all really in our hands and work very hard. The business community takes care of the community.”

Companies such as Home Depot, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Apple, Airbnb and Lowe have also offered help for affected Texas communities. Raising Cane’s, the fast food restaurant that specializes in chicken fingers, recently announced, through his founder Todd Graves, did a donation of $ 1 million to the Red Cross to help with the destruction.

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Wendele said: “We are so grateful” for the support of companies like that.

Claman asked her what Texans influenced by the flood, the most necessary except money.

“We need prayers and we need gift vouchers, and probably in that order,” said Wendele, and noticed that the room has set up a system for “categorizing those gift vouchers so that we can hand them over to people for immediate help.”