Nbc's Morgan Chesky, A Kerrville Native, To Host Reddit Ama On Texas Floods

The devastation successful Texas' Hill Country — wherever flash flooding killed astatine slightest 132 people while much than 160 stay missing — has been particularly poignant for NBC News analogous Morgan Chesky, a Kerrville native.

Chesky grew up conscionable 2 blocks from nan Guadalupe River, which swelled during nan July 4th floods and swept distant girls and counselors from Camp Mystic, which sits connected nan river's banks.

He flew successful from Los Angeles to study connected nan calamity successful his hometown, which affected friends and forced his mother to evacuate her location connected nan Guadalupe. Chesky's stepfather helped families and RVs move retired of nan measurement earlier nan powerful floods washed them away.

In nan days since, Chesky has interviewed survivors, worried families and section officials.

He'll beryllium hosting a Reddit AMA connected Monday astatine 9 a.m. CT. Users tin taxable their questions and person them answered utilizing this link.

“The quality of this occupation throws you into disasters each complete nan world, and successful each instance, location is simply a furniture of separation,” Chesky wrote past week. “But erstwhile it hits your home, it’s for illustration seeing calamity for nan first time.”