Following the severe storms and flooding in Central Texas in July 2025, the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute-Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (MCI-SCRI), with the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (CHML) and the Texas Collections Emergency Resource Alliance (TX-CERA) identified, analyzed, and mapped 33 potentially impacted cultural heritage sites across the counties of Burnet, Guadalupe, Kerr, Kimble, McCulloch, Menard, San Saba, Tom Green, Travis, and Williamson. They recently published this data in their report, “Potential Impacts to Cultural Heritage Sites from Flash Bloods in Burnet, Guadalupe, Kerr, Kimble, McCulloch, Menard, San Saba, Tom Green, Travis, and Williamson Counties, Texas, USA.”
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