{"id":47426,"date":"2025-07-08T01:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47426\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T01:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:26:06","slug":"vigil-honors-texas-flood-victims-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47426\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil honors Texas flood victims in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLyGwLPRWnE\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">candlelight vigil will be held Monday evening<\/a> at Travis Park in downtown San Antonio to honor the lives lost in the recent flash floods that have devastated communities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/state\/2025\/07\/07\/live-guadalupe-river-flooding-death-toll-rises-to-75\/84489796007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">across the Texas Hill Country.<\/a> At least 81 people have died in flooding triggered by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/weather\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unrelenting rain<\/a>\u00a0Thursday night into Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Centro San Antonio, the event aims to bring the city together in solidarity with families and residents affected by the disaster. The vigil begins at 8:30 p.m. at 301 E. Travis St., and free parking will be available at city garages downtown, according to the City of San Antonio&#8217;s parking division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand in solidarity with our neighbors across Texas, especially in times of tragedy and loss,\u201d Centro said in a statement on Instagram. \u201cUnity isn\u2019t just for times of celebration; it\u2019s essential during times of hardship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Centro is also encouraging attendees to contribute to ongoing recovery efforts. Representatives from Goodwill and the American Red Cross will be on-site to collect nonperishable food donations to benefit flood survivors in Kerr County.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the vigil and relief efforts, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/travisparksa\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@travisparksa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cityofsanantonioparking\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@centrosanantonio<\/a> on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A candlelight vigil will be held Monday evening at Travis Park in downtown San Antonio to honor the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[36619,2696,2701,5229,1625,2542,4446,6006,2693,2697,8072,30742,641,425,2551,728,644,663,2698,2702,942,50,450,950,1624,7202,7203,645,358,6003,639,36620,661,3187,646,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,643,467,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-47426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-charts-graphics","9":"tag-accidents","10":"tag-accidents-u0026-disasters","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-antonio","13":"tag-connect","14":"tag-death","15":"tag-death-u0026-tragedy","16":"tag-disaster","17":"tag-disasters","18":"tag-floods","19":"tag-kerrville","20":"tag-know","21":"tag-local","22":"tag-local-connect","23":"tag-local-news","24":"tag-modular","25":"tag-modular-story","26":"tag-natural","27":"tag-natural-disaster","28":"tag-neutral","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-neutral","32":"tag-san","33":"tag-san-antonio","34":"tag-sanantonio","35":"tag-story","36":"tag-texas","37":"tag-tragedy","38":"tag-ttp","39":"tag-ttp-visual-charts-graphics","40":"tag-ttp-what-we-know","41":"tag-tx","42":"tag-u0026","43":"tag-united-states","44":"tag-united-states-of-america","45":"tag-unitedstates","46":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","47":"tag-us","48":"tag-usa","49":"tag-visual","50":"tag-we","51":"tag-what"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}