(8 Jul 2025)
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Kerrville, Texas – 8 July 2025
1. Various, volunteers prepare meals at Mercy Chefs Donation Center
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Rockow, Volunteer chef from Dallas, whose daughters attended Camp Mystic:
“We knew, we knew that stuff was going on late Friday or late the fourth afternoon.
3. Volunteers preparing meals at Mercy Chefs Donation Center
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Rockow, Volunteer chef from Dallas, whose daughters attended Camp Mystic:
"It was quick because parents, I think kids, some of the kids got their phones back and were able to get in contact with parents and folks.”
5. Mid of volunteers prepare meals at Mercy Chefs Donation Center
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Rockow, Volunteer chef from Dallas, whose daughters attended Camp Mystic:
“My kids went to some sort of vigil in Dallas last night and with other Mystic people, and they all got together. And I’m seeing texts about, so good to see you, all that kind of stuff.”
7. Tracking shot of volunteers pushing meal storage at Mercy Chefs Donation Center
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Rockow, Volunteer chef from Dallas, whose daughters attended Camp Mystic:
“It’s hard on ’em. It’s very hard on ’em. I mean, they could have been there. It was hard on me when I thought about, oh gosh, that could have my kid. So, I am just thankful that they’re where they are and they were with us, and I’m thankful for everybody that got to get their kids home and just praying for the people that they don’t…their kids aren’t coming home.”
9. Mid of volunteers prepare meals at Mercy Chefs Donation Center
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Rockow, Volunteer chef from Dallas, whose daughters attended Camp Mystic:
“So you’re looking at basically a wall of rock in front of you and the creek is down at the very bottom, you cross, you cross the creek you cross the Guadalupe it’s the river but you cross the river. You go through the river when you go to the camp to park and pick your kids up.”
11. Various of volunteers prepare and pack meals at Mercy Chefs Donation Center
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Rockow, Volunteer chef from Dallas, whose daughters attended Camp Mystic:
“There’s nowhere for that water to go but down. And it’s pretty narrow, you know. It goes up that fast, it’s got nowhere else to go. There’s no floodplain until you get farther downriver.”
13. Various of volunteers prepare and pack meals at Mercy Chefs Donation Center
STORYLINE:
Jeff Rockow, 53, a chef and catering company owner from Dallas, has two daughters, 16-year-old Sage and 13-year-old Violet, who have been attending Camp Mystic for years and who wrapped up their stay in the Texas Hill Country about a week before the devastating floods.
“Both of my daughters were devastated and they just had a rough day,” Rockow said during a break as a volunteer assembling meals for first responders at a church in Kerrville.
“It’s hard on them. It’s very hard on them. I mean, they could have been there. It’s hard on me when I thought, ‘Oh gosh, that could have been my kids.’”
I’m just thankful that they’re where they are. I’m thankful for everybody that got to get their kids home and just praying for the people that don’t, their kids aren’t coming home.”
Rockow said his daughters’ experience at the camp has always been great and that they’ve made what he expects will be lifelong friends from all over Texas during their years there.
“Nah, I’ve not looked into it,” he said. “Have I ever thought about it? No, not really.”
AP video by Lekan Oyekanmi
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