04/23/2026
Dear Governor Greg Abbott,
I respectfully request that you direct the Texas Rangers to conduct a full and independent investigation of the July 2025 flooding events to develop a complete accounting of this sad chapter in the history of our state. Every life lost must be remembered and grieved. And every soul departed deserves the same effort and respect.
The General Investigating Committee on the July 2025 flood was charged, by unanimous resolution of both chambers, to "conduct all inquiries" and complete a "thorough examination of the facts and circumstances surrounding the flooding events which occurred on or about July 4, 2025." A majority of families who lost loved ones along the river — and the residents who survived the flood — have not been contacted. Texans expect an investigative body created by the unanimous vote of their Legislature to do the work it was assembled to do. This Committee has not.
The inquiry has narrowed to a single location. However, 135 people died that tragic morning. 119 of them in Kerr County. The narrative now being advanced by elected officials, the media, and the court system treat the majority of victims as a footnote. They are not a footnote. Entire families were lost — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers — and their deaths demand the same accounting as any other, as do the survivor stories to better understand what happened during the event.
Texans from every corner of this state answered when the Hill Country needed them. They gave. They volunteered. They prayed. They have earned the truth as much as we have.
On July 9, 2025, you said, "Who's to blame? Know this, that's the word choice of losers." Our elected officials in Texas should take note. Nine months since the July 4th flood, there is still no improved warning system along the Guadalupe River. The families who live on this river are no safer today than we were on the morning of July 4th, and every Texan watching knows that.
Sincerely,
Lori Freese
Mystic Girl Forever 💚
