(11 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Georgetown, Texas – 09 July 2025
1. Various of people stabilizing Christmas trees after flooding
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Meredith, co-owner, Sweet Eats:
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“I knew that the water was coming. We didn’t know how bad it was going to be. We didn’t know how fast it was going to come up, but we knew it was coming.”
3. Various of people stabilizing Christmas trees
4. San Gabriel River near Christmas tree farm
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Meredith, co-owner, Sweet Eats:
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“We are an agritourism farm where people come out to enjoy fun, farm related activities and, Fall fest. October is the most busy time of year for us. And with this happening in July, that has delayed a lot of our crop plantings as our focus has shifted on cleaning up.”
6. Person stabilizing Christmas trees
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Meredith, co-owner, Sweet Eats:
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“We’ve been rotating into Christmas trees. That’s the, the block behind us. And when the floodwaters came up, the Christmas trees have all started to lay down and, they don’t stand back up very easily. So my staff currently is going through and trying to straighten up all the trees. So that way they can continue to grow straight.”
8. Wide of Christmas trees bent by floodwaters
9. Closeup of bent Christmas tree, rack focus back to other affected trees
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Bend, Texas – 09 July 2025
10. Wide of ostriches in flood-affected field during rainstorm
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Boyd Clark, owner, Clark Ostrich Farms: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“Ostriches, like, they don’t like a lot of rain. They’re more of an arid type of livestock animals. And the young ones especially, all have to be put in barns and kept dry. They they can’t get wet and soaked. They don’t do well, especially when it rains for hours and hours. They are chilled down and their feathers aren’t such that they can stay real warm in the wind.”
12. Various of ostriches in barn
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Boyd Clark, owner, Clark Ostrich Farms: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“It does increase a lot of work for us. It cuts down our egg production. They’ve almost quit lying completely through all of this, and the eggs we do get are all getting ruined because they’re being laid in mud and water.”
14. Various of ostrich egg in flood waters
15.SOUNDBITE (English) Boyd Clark, owner, Clark Ostrich Farms: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“July is hot and dry here in Central Texas, usually a lot of 100 degree days and weeks, sometimes with no rain. So this is a very different year, almost the flip side of it, where we’ve had a fairly wet spring, wet early summer. When it keeps raining like this day after day, it doesn’t stop and nothing can dry out.”
16. Various of Boyd Clark driving across flood-affected fields
17. Colorado River near ostrich farm
STORYLINE:
Across Texas, the inundated rivers that ravaged communities also tore through farms and ranches.
In Bend, Boyd Clark waded into rising waters to help one of his stranded ostrich hens. Matthew Ketterman spent several agonizing hours trapped on top of his truck amid coursing rapids after driving out to check the fences on his exotic game ranch outside Burnet, about an hour north of Austin. The overflowing San Gabriel River knocked Christmas trees sideways and staff had to get petting zoo animals into a temporary pen at Sweet Eats Adventure Farm in Georgetown.
“We’re in the hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage, but you know, at the end of the day that’s just monetary and we’ll recover from that,” he said.
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