{"id":57291,"date":"2025-07-11T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57291\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:30:10","slug":"kellers-bates-street-lit-green-in-tribute-to-lives-lost-in-central-texas-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57291\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller\u2019s Bates Street lit green in tribute to lives lost in Central Texas floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBates Street will be lit green from July 10-17 in tribute to the almost 100 lives lost in Central Texas floods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What residents should know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keller Mayor Armin Mizani said the green lights will symbolize that \u201cin times of loss and grief, Texans always come together to support one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city of Keller, along with the cities of Southlake, Colleyville, North Richland Hills, Richland Hills and Watuga, are encouraging residents to donate to relief efforts for Kerr County. Online payments can be made by searching for the \u201cKerr County Relief Fund\u201d on the <a href=\"https:\/\/cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com\/erp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 100 people have died due to severe flooding in parts of Central Texas, according to previous Community Impact <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/south-central-austin\/government\/2025\/07\/07\/how-texans-can-help-those-impacted-by-the-central-texas-floods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting<\/a>. That includes 84 people killed by flooding in Kerr County, 6 in Travis County, and 2 in Williamson County.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations across Texas are accepting donations and organizing volunteers to help people affected by the floods, from <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/south-central-austin\/government\/2025\/07\/07\/how-texans-can-help-those-impacted-by-the-central-texas-floods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jewelry companies to disaster relief nonprofits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeller stands ready to assist in any way possible once [Kerrville begins] to recover from this terrible tragedy,\u201d Mizani said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArminMizaniTX\/posts\/pfbid0d2M5KA97rHP5aEUKvPneWyYEGEuiXS84xBJU5XpsnzAosi4VFvr8ZuWUm7gsrYaql\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media post<\/a> July 5. \u201cPlease continue to pray for all the families and communities impacted.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bates Street will be lit green from July 10-17 in tribute to the almost 100 lives lost in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,41921,34004,7371,7372,41919,41920,41922,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-57291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bates-street-lights-green","10":"tag-central-texas-floods","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-keller-aid-to-central-texas","14":"tag-keller-green-lights","15":"tag-keller-tribute-to-central-texas","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114835555778280345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57291","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=57291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}