Mindindi Vendel, president and CEO of the Carville Area Chamber of Commerce, unpacked the Texas Flash Flads’ response to ‘The Claiman Countdown’.
Community and major industries Central texas Recently, a tough competition was given with deadly flash floods. As the area starts working to overcome the disaster, local business communities and other help have been exiting.
The areas of Central Texas faced severe floods during the long fourth place of July holiday weekend, which was brought by Heavy rainEqual to destructive residents and businesses. At least 119 people have been killed.
A photo reveals floods due to a flash flood in the Guadalup River in Keraville, Texas on July 5, 2025. (Through Ronaldo Schemeidt / AFP Getty Image / Getty Image)
Achuta Informed on Monday Flood damage and resulting economic losses can occur in a total of $ 18-22 billion range in total.
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The camp industry is a major industry in Kerville and one of the areas that have been affected by floods.
Mindy Vendel, president and CEO of the Carville Area Chamber of Commerce, told “The Claman Countdown” Host Liz Claman that the camp industry’s economic impact “is important with more than $ 40 million under annual direct impact.”
“They are a generator who has such a wonderful, 100 year old history of our industry in Texas Hill Country and Ker County,” she said. “And you take it out Our economy And, of course, there is definitely an effect. ,
According to Vendel, Ker County’s top industry is tourism.
He said, “We employ more than 1,100 people in that industry and as you can imagine, now that it is destruction in our region, it is going to affect many people,” he told Claman. “And they have direct effects, obviously. Then we have families that are part of more than 1,100 people.”
A person read “Kerville Strong” on 7 July 2025 at the Travis Park in San Antonio, Travis Park in Texas, at Travis Park, during a vigilance for flood victims in the fourth weekend. (Through Ronaldo Schemeidt / AFP Getty Image / Getty Image)
Wandel said Business and community leader “The streets are out now” and “businesses” are survey and survey of “businesses” because they can see what their needs are in view of floods “.
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According to the CEO of the Carville Area Chamber of Commerce, people from various businesses and small business owners are leaving to help the affected communities.
He said, “We had a people in my building yesterday, who are completely away to help people, seriously, from dog food to Chensaw everything to get out of the kitchen so that these restaurants and resorts could open,” he said.
The Carville Area Chamber of Commerce created a “reconstruction and recover fund” this week to help businesses with their recovery efforts, which people have donated. According to Vendel, it got the authority to start sending money on Wednesday morning.
Search and rescue workers dig through debris who are looking for any remaining people or the remains of the people have been swept away in flash floods in Hunt, Texas on July 6, 2025. (Jim Wondruska / Getty Image / Getty Image)
“This time last week, none of us thought that we would be in this position,” he said. “But here we are, and we are all really joining the hands and working very hard. The business community takes care of the community.”
Companies Like the Home Depot, Walmart, Proctor & Gamble, Apple, AirBNB and Love are also assisting to affect Texas communities. Raising sugarcane, fast food restaurant that specializes in chicken fingers, Recently declaredThrough its founder Todd Graves, it was donating $ 1 million to the Red Cross to assist with devastation.
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Wandel said that “we are very grate” to support corporations like them.
Claman asked him whether Texas, who was affected by the flood, needed the most other than money.
“We need prayers and we need a gift card, and perhaps in that order,” Wandel said, keeping in mind the Chamber “installed a system to classify those gift cards so that we can hand over those people for immediate help.”
