(13 Jul 2025)
++CUSTOMER NOTE: Edit refiled correcting the name of person speaking in shot 14 and 16 to Olivas and shot 24 to Hastings
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Comfort, Texas – 12 July 2025
1. Wide of volunteers working
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Welch, house destroyed in flood:
"This gentleman out of Fredericksburg, his name is Huntley. He came to me yesterday and said, `Do you need some help?’ And I said, `I desperately need some help.’"
3. Wide panning shot of volunteers washing household items
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Welch, house destroyed in flood:
"And he said, `I’ll have equipment. I’ll have an army here tomorrow.’ And I thought, that is just too good to be true."
5. Wide of man pulling plank from wall
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Welch, house destroyed in flood:
"But he showed up, and it is just absolutely amazing."
7. Wide of people sorting, cleaning items
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ingram, Texas – 12 July 2025
8. Wide of volunteer working under vintage car
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvia Carranza, Operation Blessing:
"We come from all over. I’m from Mexico, I came from Mexico. We have people from Honduras, Chile. Someone’s coming from Costa Rica."
10. Wide of volunteer with homeowner
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Colleen Lucas, home not insured:
"It’s really emotional. It’s been a blessing. God has watched over us through this whole ordeal. And I cannot express how much I appreciate everything that they have done for us."
12. Wide of Lucas hugging Carranza
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kerrville, Texas – 12 July 2025
13. Daniel Olivas showing how high floodwater reached on his house
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Olivas, home gutted in flood:
"Two men showed up from Christ the King Church in Corpus Christi, and knew my name."
15. Wide of Olivas walking into gutted kitchen
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Olivas, home gutted in flood:
"And they said, `Well, we’re here to clean your house.’ Out of nowhere. And then maybe like 10 minutes later, reinforcements started coming in. So, we had up to 30 people on Sunday. I call them our 33 angels that ascended upon us."
17. Pan of Olivas in stripped room
18. Wide of volunteers and brush pile outside home
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Monica Watson, volunteer:
"We had known by driving by and seeing this that it needed to be done. Woke up this morning, and there was a Facebook post for 621 Guadalupe. I shared it a couple times. I called my company. They’ve shared it. Within about 10 minutes of me showing up, four grown men, a Bobcat, a Kubota and about six trailers had then showed up."
20. Wide of woman raking debris
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Monica Watson. Volunteer:
"It is really hard work, especially out here in the heat and humidity. We’re all heartbroken, and everybody’s just pitching in."
22. Wide of woman dumping wheelbarrow on brush pile
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Comfort, Texas – 12 July 2025
23. Mid of man moving ladder in gutted home
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Hastings, Home Destroyed:
“We are beyond grateful for these people and this equipment and this manpower. The giving and the love. It’s just filled our hearts.”
Paul Welch: “Beyond belief. We have hope now.”
Elizabeth Hastings “Yeah, we do.”
Paul Welch: "Up until yesterday, it was pretty bleak.
Elizabeth Hastings: "Pretty bleak. But Comfort is comforting."
25. Wide of machine clearing mud from driveway
STORYLINE:
Paul Welch and partner Elizabeth Hastings were considering moving after their cabin in Comfort, Texas, was destroyed in the July Fourth floods. Then, a man showed up and asked if he needed any help.
But it was true.
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