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RV Park Owner Describes Terrifying Sound As Floodwaters Swept Families Away
An proprietor of an RV park described how she heard families in Texas howling in fear and agony as they were carried away to their deaths by floods.
Ingram’s Blue Oak RV Park owner, Lorena Guen, said she had to sit through Friday’s cries for assistance from families with kids.
However, as Guen recounted how rescuers couldn’t get to the stranded RV residents before floodwaters carried them away, her voice faltered.
A few seconds later, some of the victims’ cars crashed into trees.
As of right today, 94 people have died in the tragedy that occurred over the weekend. That includes 27 people killed at a Christian camp for girls called Camp Mystic.
The final death toll is probably going to reach triple figures, and more are still unaccounted for.
Death toll rises to 94
There are already 94 people dead from the Texas floods. Six fatalities were confirmed Monday in Kendall County, which is around 30 kilometres from downtown San Antonio.
There are still 27 persons unaccounted for, and the eventual death toll will very likely be far into the triple digits.
RV park owner shares ‘unbearable’ sound that rang out as families were swept to their deaths by Texas floods
“It was pitch black. You couldn’t see anything, but you could hear honking and you could hear the screaming,” Lorena Guen told WOAI-TV.
It was completely dark. “You could hear the screaming and honking, but you couldn’t see anything,” Lorena Guen told WOAI-TV.
“The screaming was unbearable.”
According to the proprietor of the RV park, she checked the Guadalupe River community’s water levels right before bed on Friday at around two in the morning.
But when rescue crews arrived and the water levels rose “a good 40ft in the area” ninety minutes later, she was startled awake.
Residents were frantically attempting to leave the RV park; Lorena recalled how her renters hurried out of their houses without shoes and in their underwear.
Although some were able to escape with their pets, she said they had no time to gather their stuff before hopping into their automobiles and racing to higher ground for safety.
Except for one family of five, every resident of Guen was able to escape the rushing water without incident.
“We’re one of the luckiest ones because we only have five people missing,” she told the news outlet.
She is heartbroken that one family did not escape safely, though, as their RV was located on an island part of the property.
She said the family tried to get out of their camper home, but couldn’t because “the waters were rising so much”. Guen added, “The force of that water was so insane. Nobody could get into it.”
In an effort to reach the family, one Blue Oak homeowner attempted to wade through the waist-deep water while being sliced by debris.
He was yelling, “please throw me your baby” and they couldn’t – and they got swept away,’ Guen recalled.
The Good Samaritan lost his pets in the tragedy, but he was able to escape unharmed, according to the proprietor of the RV park.
She claims that she has no idea how the community would bounce back from the tragedy.
“Every single RV is the area was gone. It got washed away,” she said, adding how a park neighboring Blue Oak had at least 40 residents missing in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.
How many have since been found or declared deceased is unknown.
“We need so much help,” she added.
Counselor recalls heartbreaking moment families tried to reunite after Camp Mystic evacuations
The tragic event when the Guadalupe River totally overflowed the dam and carried away the camp’s waterfront cabins while campers were still inside was recalled by a counsellor at Camp Mystic.
Holly According to Kate Hurley, the floods “wiped away” two cottages that contained campers in elementary school.
“They gathered all the counselors that were at Cyprus Lake and they told us that two of the cabins with the seven-year-old girls were wiped away and all these girls were missing,” she told Fox News.
“And we went back to our cabins and tried to keep up good spirits with these young girls.”
“I think I was just in shock,” she added.
Hurley said she will never forget the horrifying scenes that followed as parents attempted to reunite with their daughters, but she is grateful to the Army soldiers who assisted them in evacuating.
“Seeing little girls run to their parents and just hug them and cry, and also just seeing some parents who were looking for their little girls and they weren’t there… But, that’s just a sight I don’t think I’ll ever forget.”
Before becoming a counsellor on staff, Hurley was a frequent camper at Camp Mystic, having gone there since he was 10 years old.
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