A Devastating Flood Took Her Home
Angie Navarez, a flood survivor in Kerrville, TX, described the morning of July 4th, 2025, “Early in the morning, probably about 2:30, 3 o’clock in the morning, I heard the rain. So, I got up. I couldn’t sleep. And I was just walking back and forth trying to get calm because I heard the thunder and everything, and then about 4, I guess, I saw red and blue lights. And I thought it was maybe an ambulance looking for someone here, you know, like a patient to take. And I looked out the window and it was the fire department. And I saw them getting out of their truck with their flashlights looking at the road. And I kept telling my grandson, you know, ‘There’s something going on.’ And he’s like, uhm. I was talking to him and he was trying to listen and he said, ‘Nano, hush. I gotta hear.’ So, uhm, he said, ‘We got to go. I heard them say to evacuate immediately.’ I didn’t grab anything, and this is so crazy, the only thing I grabbed was my purse, my phone, and my Bible.”
Angie shared home video from her smartphone as she surveyed the damage to her RV and said, “My porch is completely gone. This is the inside. So far. That’s how high the water got, looks like.”
“I found a lot of saddness. Uhm, it was really sad for me to walk in there and see the mud, the water, everything just ruined,” said Angie. “Uhm, people around me just taking things out, crying. I just. I have no words. It was just sad. It was sad. It was heartbreaking because to think that we could have been asleep, we could have been one of the ones washed away. You just never know. God was really looking out for us because He woke me up.”
After volunteers with Operation Blessing came and helped her clean her flooded RV, Angie said, “With Operation Blessing, it’s going to be a forever relationship for me. Oh my gosh, it’s almost like we’ve known eachother for years because, I mean, it’s not even just a handshake, it’s a hug and a ‘Hey, how you doing?’ And, ‘Let’s get this taken care of. Do you,’ you know, ‘Let’s see what we can get in there and do.’ They’re getting their hands dirty on a Saturday, on probably their day off to help me. It’s a God send. I mean it’s like working with God because they are all just so wonderful. I see God’s work through everyone that’s helping. Through everyone because this is not just something you do without having God in your heart. You wouldn’t just come out and work with this person or that person, or just pick up trash because you want to. It’s a God thing. I know that this was tragic and, uhm, we lost a lot, but I think the rebuild, and I think that God has a plan for us. God wanted to show us we’ve got to come together, people. We really do.”
