Show Notes
Where the River Took Us is a podcast about what it was like to live through the July 4th floods in Central Texas. The show is about the complexity of being a disaster survivor.
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A year after historic flooding killed more than 130 people in the Texas Hill Country, we meet a local official fighting for change — and getting more pushback than he expected. In the midst of it all, another massive flood happened. Was the community better prepared this time around?
As we were putting the finishing touches on the fifth and final episode of After the Flood, another flood hit the Hill Country. So, we had to pivot. How were these two floods different? Were elected officials more prepared? Did residents have timely information? That’s going to take some time to figure out, so our […]
On July 5, 2025, one day after the deadly floods in Kerr County, another flood hit the community of Sandy Creek 100 miles away. Nine people died and more than 100 homes were damaged or destroyed. Ashlee Willis and her mother, Brandy Gerstner, lost everything in that flood and didn’t get the help they expected […]
After Matthew and Wendie Childress buried their only daughter, Chloe, an 18-year-old counselor at Camp Mystic, they turned their grief into action. In this episode Matthew and other Camp Mystic families head to the Capitol in Austin to fight for stronger regulations around summer camps.
Winding rivers and scenic canyons make the Hill Country beautiful. But its beauty also makes it susceptible to flooding, so much so that it’s earned the nickname “Flash Flood Alley”. In this episode we dive into what makes the area so vulnerable and look into its history of flooding — and how residents and visitors […]