The family is relying on the help of strangers to help her find stable housing.
BOERNE, Texas — A mother in Comfort is looking for housing after taking shelter at a restaurant in Boerne to get her five kids out of danger.
Jacqueline White is grateful her and her five kids made it out safely. KENS 5 was on her parents’ property in Comfort.
Call it mother’s intuition, but on the morning of July 4th, White had a gut feeling something was wrong.
“Me and my kids got out probably ten minutes before the water got out to our house,” White said.
White is grateful she listened to her ‘gut feeling’ the morning of July 4th. She was receiving flash flood alerts on her phone.
“I started packing a bag, an extra pair of clothes for each person in our house,” White said. “I just had a bad feeling, I don’t know. Then I heard this really loud noise outside so I went out on the porch. And a fireman in a fire truck said, ‘We’re evacuating everyone’.”
White and her kids headed to Boerne, settling in at a Denny’s. That’s when she received a call from her mother.
“She said, ‘Your house is underwater’. And so I started crying in the middle of Denny’s,” White said.
The flood waters were strong enough to shift White’s cabin about 20 feet.
White’s sister, Tiffany Tripson, wants White and her kids to have peace of mind.
“My first concern was the housing for her and the kids because that’s the most immediate security the family has,” Tripson said.
To date, the family has received more than $12,000 in GoFundMe donations.
“Focusing mostly on her to get either temporary housing and then also repairing the cabin and making it more stable and secure,” Tripson said. “I know that everyone is helping in any way they can.”