Texas flooding: Counties eligible for FEMA relief

Kerr County and 20 other Texas counties are now eligible to get FEMA funding for individual and household assistance for the flooding that happened in Kerrville over the summer. Fox 7 Austin meteorologist Kerry Burgess was in Kerrville Friday. He reports. Before the second year in a row, Kerrville and Kerr County sustained significant damage from flooding in the Guadalupe River right here in Kerrville. We're downtown at the Lima Street Bridge, which is one bridge that has been repaired twice by damaging floods. Initially, FEMA denied funding for some of the damage here. Property owners and those affected by flooding in July were denied funding at first. But then on October 30th, Governor Greg Abbott announced that Thanks to an appeal by Texas from the Texas Division of Emergency Management that FEMA would supply individual and homeowner help and assistance and recovery here from the flood of this year, 2026. So hopefully... We can see some improvements made here in Kerr County. I was unable to get any Kerr County officials to talk about it. They're kind of squeamish about that just a little bit, but they did. I think overall they're generally happy that they're going to receive some improvement and some funding from the federal government to help rebuild some of the damage that was sustained in these floods the last couple of years in Kerr County. Reporting in Kerrville, I'm Fox 7 meteorologist Kerry Burgess.