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College Football Teams Unite to Honor Hill Country Flood Victims with Helmet Decals
Texas college football teams will wear a green ribbon decal to honor 138 flood victims and raise awareness for ongoing recovery efforts across Central Texas communities.
- On July 4, Shoe's search-and-rescue volunteer team deployed to the Guadalupe River, working two weeks to recover family papers but not missing relatives amid difficult conditions.
- The Guadalupe River surge of roughly 26 feet in 45 minutes caused a 100-year flood that hit Kerr County, Texas especially hard, resulting in 117 deaths.
- The disaster's human cost is stark, with 138 fatalities including 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic, and more than 38,000 homes damaged.
- Direct Relief provided a $50,000 emergency grant to TEXSAR, while local communities donated 18 pallets of supplies and Texas state lawmakers passed SB3, now headed to Gov. Greg Abbott.
- College football programs in Texas will don a green-ribbon decal, while a $3,799 banjo raffle via Givebutter runs through September 1 to fund ReString Appalachia's instrument donations starting August 6.
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Texas Longhorns honor flood victims with green ribbons
HOUSTON (CW39) — The University of Texas football team will carry a special tribute into its biggest game of the season this Saturday and the entire season. When the Longhorns face Ohio State in Week One, players will wear helmet stickers shaped like the state of Texas with the state flag and a green bow in the center. What is the significance of green ribbons? The green ribbon is a symbol of remembrance for the lives lost and the communities im…
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