During the Hill Country floods, many people lost everything. Cheri Shine, whose home in Kerrville was destroyed, has prioritized seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

“We’re not sure that we’re going to rebuild here,” Shine said.

Shine has been a homeowner in Kerrville for 10 years, despite the weather, because of the people and the beauty of the Hill Country.

“We have rebuilt this cabin, this was our third time,” Shine said. “We moved in two months before the flood.”

Freshly rebuilt just before July, and now, one month after the floods, not even the foundation is standing.

“At 6:30 a.m., the first snapshot [on our home camera] was just a little bit of water on the ground, nothing that we would ever have evacuated for,” Shine said. “I mean, a couple of inches. Two minutes later,

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