This was never just our rebuild
Since July 2025, Asher Acres has stayed in the middle of Sandy Creek's recovery — organizing residents, coordinating volunteers, connecting people to resources, and advocating alongside other survivors for the long-term support this community still needs.
Organizations we helped start
Sandy Creek Alliance
Established by community members after the flood to make sure local voices are heard — through advocacy, organizing, and collaboration on recovery needs.
Travis County Recovery Alliance
Coordination among disaster survivors, nonprofits, faith communities, public agencies, and recovery partners — built so the next family does not have to start from scratch.
Community meeting, volunteer day, or Sandy Creek Alliance gathering
The work since the water went down
- Coordinated volunteers and community-led recovery in the weeks after the flood.
- Supported organizations handling debris removal, cleanup, rebuilding, and survivor support.
- Connected residents with available recovery resources.
- Convened and joined community meetings on recovery needs and local infrastructure.
- Participated in public hearings on disaster recovery.
- Joined other survivors in advocating for state and federal recovery resources, including meetings with congressional offices in Washington, D.C.
- Helped organize community letter-writing supporting disaster recovery legislation and funding.
- Continued identifying and communicating unmet needs in Sandy Creek more than a year after the disaster.
Advocacy — testimony, a public hearing, or the Washington D.C. trip
Telling the story
Sandy Creek's recovery has been covered by local and national print, broadcast, and radio outlets. We have used that visibility to push for the resources this community needs and to point at the gaps in how disaster recovery actually works.
“Disasters don't discriminate; disaster recovery does.”
— Ashlee Willis, Community Impact, July 2026
- “Why almost no one has rebuilt their homes 1 year after Travis County floods” — Austin American-Statesman
- “One year after the Texas floods, home feels further away than ever” — Grist
- “Sandy Creek flooding survivors find community, push for change” — Community Impact
Full press coverage and media resources →
By telling this story publicly, we hope to push toward real improvements in local, state, and federal recovery systems — so the next people to go through this are better supported, better informed, and able to recover faster than we did.