1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Michael Varie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 2: The Kerr County City Manager is doing a press conference 4 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 2: right now. I don't know what the updates are, but 5 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 2: let's dip into there and see. 6 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 3: The volunteers to get off to make sure that they 7 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 3: don't become victims themselves. Those operations involve nineteen different local 8 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 3: and state agencies. In addition to conducting primary and secondary searches, 9 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 3: they will be conducting welfare checks on areas in north 10 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,319 Speaker 3: Kerr County impacted by power outages. And when you say 11 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 3: search and rescue operations, that is boat walking on the ground, dogs, 12 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 3: drones again, keep personal drones out of the air, helicopters. 13 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 3: We do have other assets that are continuing to search 14 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 3: as well. As of present, CAPE Hub, which is a 15 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 3: Kerville Public Utility Board, is reporting continued power outages between 16 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 3: Hunt and Ingram along the South Fork of the Guadaloupe 17 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 3: River and Hunt. In the South Fork area, there are 18 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 3: approximately forty down power lines and significant infrastructure damage. Cape 19 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 3: pub has brought in additional utility personnel to help with restoration, 20 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 3: but it's not possible at this time when the power 21 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 3: is going to be restored. There are some substations along 22 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 3: with those power lines that we are still trying to 23 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 3: get access to just from debris build up or then 24 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: being completely wiped out, so we do not again we 25 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,919 Speaker 3: do not have an estimated time on when those are. 26 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: Going to be fixed. 27 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 3: We continue to have substantial number of requests for volunteers 28 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 3: as I said before, and donation opportunities. We are asking 29 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 3: those who want to volunteer to contact the Salvation Army 30 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 3: in Kerrville by phone at eight three zero four six 31 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 3: five four seven nine seven or in person at eight 32 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 3: five five Hayes. 33 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 2: Street in Curveville. 34 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 3: Monetary donations can be made on the Community Foundation of 35 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 3: the Texas Hill Country's website at www dot communityfoundation dot net. 36 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 3: They have a Kerr County Relief Fund set up on 37 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 3: that site, and I will now turn it over to 38 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 3: the mayor, Joe Herring. 39 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. 40 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 4: I need to tell my community and those families who 41 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 4: are waiting, this will be a rough week. Primary search 42 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 4: continues and we remain hopeful every foot, every mile, every 43 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 4: bend of the river, our work continues. You need to 44 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 4: know that we have been blessed with help from the 45 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 4: community from the state and the nation. We have trained 46 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 4: experts who are helping in this effort. If you want 47 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 4: to volunteer, it is important that you contact Kervill's Salvation 48 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 4: Army and register. Dalton gave that number, but I'm going 49 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 4: to give it again. Eight three zero, four, six, five, 50 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 4: four seven nine seven. We need focused and coordinated volunteers, 51 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 4: not random people just showing up and doing what they do. 52 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 2: We need to work together. 53 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 4: As Dalton said, donations have been flowing in from around 54 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 4: the world to the Community Foundation. 55 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 2: Again. 56 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 4: That website is community foundation dot net. Please follow the 57 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 4: kergl A City of Kervill's Facebook page for updates. 58 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 2: They're accurate. 59 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 4: We take a lot of time to make sure we 60 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 4: send out information that will be helpful not only to 61 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 4: residents but those who are visiting. I've said this one 62 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: hundred times and I will say it again. We need 63 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 4: your prayers. We need your prayers. 64 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 2: Thank you. And now, Senator Ted Cruz, Okay, you know, 65 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 2: I thought that's a pretty strong way for the mayor 66 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 2: to start the press conference, to say this is going 67 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 2: to be a rough week. Because it is. Because it 68 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 2: is the moment you went from rescue to converting to recovery. 69 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,679 Speaker 2: I got an email from a first response this morning 70 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 2: who said every time he sees something like this, all 71 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 2: he can think about are the first responders and the 72 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 2: PTSD menu will suffer as a result, having suffered it himself. 73 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 2: And he said, you just can't imagine how devastating this 74 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 2: experience is, what it does to your mindset, what it does, 75 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 2: you can't ever unsee, undo, and just one after the 76 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: other after the other. We're not wired for this. We're 77 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 2: wired to heal people, wired to help people. We're not 78 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 2: wired to simply turn away when we've lost them, and 79 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 2: in this case it's children. I just you know this. 80 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 2: Christina approached, I said, I wouldn't see anything, but I 81 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 2: have to state approbes. Who was at Bluefish Pediatrics, part 82 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 2: of the memorial Hermann group has apparently been fired. That's 83 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 2: what they say on their website, or maybe she will 84 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 2: claim she resigned. She said such horrible things. I don't 85 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 2: mind somebody being a liberal. I actually think it's healthy. 86 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 2: You need different political opinions. You need an Elon to 87 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 2: question things. You need a Thomas Massey to question things. 88 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: You need to Ran Paul to question things. You even 89 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 2: need a few goofballs to say stupid stuff just so 90 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 2: the marketplace of ideas has every shelf with an offering. Now, 91 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 2: I want to make good policy, but I am not 92 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 2: for silencing an opinion. What she did, however, was dance 93 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 2: on the graves of those little girl and say that 94 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 2: the people of the Hill Country have now fed around 95 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 2: and will f O, which is find out that's fafo, 96 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 2: f around and find out. And she did that as 97 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 2: we were just getting reports of the first deaths, and 98 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 2: most of those girls were missing. And she's a pediatrician, 99 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 2: for all she knows it's one of her patients that 100 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 2: is out there. She has every right, defensible right to 101 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 2: say whatever she wants, the most awful, hainous, evil, hurtful 102 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: thing imaginable. That's the kind of country I want to 103 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 2: live in. And we have every right to respond by 104 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 2: simply exposing what she has said to a broad audience 105 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 2: of mommies, to say that could be your kid, that 106 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 2: could be your kid missing and the doctor you're paying 107 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: to what do you think that woman looks out for 108 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 2: a child's best interest. I hope this haunts her for 109 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 2: the rest of her life, and I hope every person 110 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 2: seeking to do something like that. 111 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 5: Thanks twice now the Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Showy. 112 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 2: Lordly Home. This is a story I didn't have a 113 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 2: chance to play for you in the last segments. It's 114 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 2: by Ken's KNSTV. The woman who was rescued. This is 115 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 2: one of the good news stories. 116 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 6: There's one miracle story that a woman who was swept 117 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 6: away up there ended up here. Let's get right to 118 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 6: that video so you can see what happened at around 119 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 6: eight o'clock this morning, after the girl was swept all 120 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 6: the way from Ingram all the way to Center Pointe, Texas. 121 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 6: The homeowner here says he went out on his deck 122 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 6: and he saw and he heard, rather he heard somebody 123 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 6: screaming for help. And when he came out on his deck, 124 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 6: he had to look way across the river, and when 125 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 6: he did, he looked into the trees and he saw 126 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 6: this woman being sheltered by a huge cypress tree. One 127 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 6: limb had already been ripped off and another was about 128 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 6: to be ripped off. But she had been in the 129 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 6: tree for several hours at that point already, because she 130 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 6: was swept out of her campground, out of her tent 131 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 6: at four o'clock in the morning, and so he heard 132 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 6: her screaming. He came out here. He started calling back 133 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 6: to her. He said, I hear you, I see you. 134 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 6: He called for help. He didn't have any luck getting 135 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 6: response from nine to one one, so he actually went 136 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 6: down the street flagged down. A law enforcement person said, hey, 137 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 6: there's a girl in a tree over here. They sent boats. 138 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 6: They sent a couple of boats. They had to figure 139 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 6: out a way to get the boats down two river level, 140 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 6: and of course the river was still high at that point. 141 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 6: They got to her and she had to drop into 142 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 6: the boat because by the time the boat got here, 143 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 6: the water had receded ten or twelve feet. They say, 144 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 6: she jumped from that tree and face planted into that 145 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 6: rescue boat and they were able to bring her back 146 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 6: to shore. Now, the tragedy here is that this young 147 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 6: lady was swept away with family members when she left here. 148 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 6: She didn't know the fate of her family members, her mom, 149 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 6: her dad, and other relatives that were swept away. They 150 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 6: tried to get away in a car and they were 151 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 6: swept away from far upstream in Ingram, Texas. So the 152 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 6: homeowner here says that after they got this girl out 153 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 6: of the boat, they brought her up here into the house. 154 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 6: The firefighters, the paramedics checked her vitals. She had a 155 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 6: few bumps and bruises, and they said that was amazing 156 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 6: because she had gone over four dams and been dropped. 157 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 6: She told them the story of fighting refrigera raiders, dodging 158 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 6: recreational vehicles as she traveled down that long twenty mile stretch, 159 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 6: of being wiped away. So when she got here, she 160 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 6: was checked out by the paramedics. She had a few 161 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 6: bumps and bruises, few scrapes, but the medics had to 162 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 6: go on, the rescue personnel had to go on. So 163 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 6: they left her here in this home with the lovely 164 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 6: neighbors who heard her call for help and responded. And 165 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 6: these kinds of hero stories are being reported and being 166 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 6: repeated throughout the whole country. And if there's any hope 167 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 6: at all that somebody could still be out there in 168 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 6: the floodwater as the waters continue to recede and as 169 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 6: property owners began to check their property, that's the hope 170 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 6: of it all, that the missing people are out there somewhere, 171 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 6: and that somebody will hear their cry for help, and 172 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 6: that some of these people who are missing will still 173 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 6: be recovered. 174 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 2: May not be going into the water and making the 175 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 2: recovery yourself was simply being a person who makes a 176 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 2: call could save a life. The same network, same state, 177 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 2: k E n STV. The homeowner talks about seeing the 178 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 2: girl true miracles. 179 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 7: There's no other way to explain it. 180 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 2: We heard her screaming, I did. 181 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 7: We We had gone away from the house for a 182 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 7: little while try because we were afraid the water was 183 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 7: coming in our house, and I waited till it was stabilized, 184 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 7: and I knew, so I waited back over. I came 185 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 7: up on the deck and she saw me. So she 186 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 7: started to scream out loud, and I thought she was 187 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 7: in the water going down the river. And I finally 188 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 7: looked and was able to spot her in the tree, 189 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 7: and so, you know, I began to holler back to her, 190 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 7: you know, hey, I see you. We'll get your help, 191 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 7: and I called nine one one. Waited about twenty minutes, 192 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 7: nobody showed up, and I got in my vehicle, drove 193 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 7: down the road to where I knew there were going 194 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 7: to be authorities, and I found a DPS agent and 195 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 7: he then videoed and our called in and sent some 196 00:12:59,160 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 7: folks over here. 197 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 2: But it still took a while, so they brought a boat. 198 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 7: They did. We had a little bullhorn. We were hollering 199 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 7: back and forth at her to let her know how 200 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 7: were just hang on, hang on, hang on, because she 201 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 7: was desperate, I mean desperate. 202 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 2: And then then you learned she came all the way 203 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 2: from hunt Ingram. 204 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 7: After after they were able to pluck her out, we 205 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 7: brought her into our house and gave her a shower, 206 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 7: clothed there because it had stripped all of her clothing off, 207 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 7: and gave her something to drink, gave her a nap, 208 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 7: and then we had a long talk with her. We 209 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 7: called her her grandmother in corpus Uh because she's also missing. 210 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 7: Her parents were with her at the time. 211 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 8: And uncle as well. 212 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, sister and uncle. 213 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 6: So they were at a campground and the water came 214 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 6: up at did you say four o'clock? 215 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 8: She told us that roughly four am. They started noticing 216 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 8: the water coming up her her, her mom and dad 217 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 8: got in their car to try and go up the 218 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 8: hill to get out of the water. The car was overtaken, 219 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 8: the water installed out. They had to open the sunroof, 220 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 8: climbed through the sunroof, and then she said they were 221 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 8: able to get on a tree. Her mom and her 222 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 8: were clinging to each other. The dad was behind holding 223 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,959 Speaker 8: onto them. Water would have been pushing at their back, 224 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 8: she said. It just kept overtaking them, and eventually they 225 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 8: got swept away. She said, the dad, they lost him immediately. 226 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 8: Her and her mother were able to hang on to 227 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 8: each other for a while. Then they got taken under 228 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 8: in some sort of a rapid of some kind. They 229 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 8: got separated. She said. They were screaming back and forth 230 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 8: coming down the river for a period of time. Then 231 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 8: she lost her mom. Wow, she said. She said that 232 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 8: she had clung to a handful of trees. They were small, 233 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 8: would ended up getting pushed over and overtaken, and somehow 234 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 8: she ended up here. 235 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 7: And so you found the strength to climb in the tree. 236 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 6: And you said that she went into the water at four, 237 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 6: but you didn't see her until. 238 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 7: Eight o'clock, a little after eight o'clock in the morning. 239 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 6: So her adventure was already four hours old when you saw. 240 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 6: And then it took a while for the boat to 241 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 6: get there exactly. 242 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 7: And they're from Midlands, so they have no idea about 243 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 7: these things. It's you know, it's a new experience for 244 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 7: them since she came under a couple of bridges, one 245 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 7: of them would have had to have been on Sydney 246 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 7: Biker and she could see cars passing by. 247 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 5: The Michael Berry Show Michael Berry's Show. 248 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 2: President Trump is looks like going to visit Kerk County 249 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 2: on Friday. He signed the disaster declaration yesterday for Kirk County. 250 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 2: I think there are going to be some other counties 251 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 2: as well because the flooding is more extensive than just 252 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 2: Kerr County. Asked why he was not visiting sooner, he said, 253 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 2: we would just be in the It's the same thing 254 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 2: that happened to George W. Bush in New Orleans where 255 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 2: he was flying over in a previously scheduled flight and 256 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 2: chose not to touch down. People who wanted to attack 257 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 2: George Bush would have attacked George Bush. Period into story 258 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 2: once you understand that you give no credence to anything 259 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: people say. A presidential visit, especially on short order, requires 260 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 2: so many resources on the ground local The Secret Service 261 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 2: doesn't have those resources already in place. That would mean 262 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 2: that sheriff's deputies and other officials would be pulled out 263 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: of their jobs performing their tasks to get the route 264 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: and the security place for the president to visit, and 265 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 2: that is a selfish thing to do, and the President's 266 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 2: not going to do it. I understand that there will 267 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: be two responses to that. One is frustration, because you 268 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 2: want the gravity of the moment. You want to know 269 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 2: that the president showed up. These children mattered. They're going 270 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 2: to know they mattered. Their families are going to know 271 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 2: they mattered. Before this is over, everyone is going to 272 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 2: know that those little girls mattered. There will be no doubt. 273 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 2: By the time this is done, the memorials will be glorious, 274 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: something to behold. I will not watch it on the 275 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 2: air or around anyone else, because I'm sure I'll be blubbering. 276 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 2: The precious innocence of little girls at summer camp. I mean, 277 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 2: I don't know what else is more precious. I don't 278 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 2: know you could find something, you could script, something more 279 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 2: precious to society than that. Beaumont father ty Baden. I 280 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 2: assume it's Baden, could be Badon or Badon if it's 281 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 2: a good French name. Walk to the banks of the Guadaloupe, 282 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 2: desperately searching for his twenty one year old daughter, screaming 283 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,879 Speaker 2: her name, Joyce Catherine This was one of the most 284 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 2: powerful stories I saw, and I stayed glued to everything 285 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 2: and text messages and everything else over the weekend. He 286 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,360 Speaker 2: told CNN that he would keep the faith because that's 287 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 2: all I can do. This is a father's love. 288 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 9: Just beyond this ledge that went down towards the edge 289 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 9: of the river, we heard a man calling out Joyce, Catherine, 290 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 9: Joyce Catherine. Happened several times, and we kind of follow 291 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 9: the voice, and that's where we met Ty Baden. He 292 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 9: is a father of twenty one year old Joyce. Catherine. 293 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 9: Baden and his daughter had come out here to spend 294 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 9: the July fourth weekend with three other friends and a 295 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 9: home just along the river, and they lost contact with 296 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 9: the group around four am early Friday morning. Ty Baden 297 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 9: has spent the morning walking. By the time we met him, 298 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 9: he'd already walked along about a mile, had come across 299 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 9: the body of another young victim and called it into 300 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 9: nine one one. And this is a father desperately searching 301 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 9: for his twenty one year old daughter in hopes that 302 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 9: he would stumble upon a miracle. Your daughter was here 303 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 9: with two. 304 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 2: Friends, three three friends. Hey, and he's four of them? 305 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 8: Correct? 306 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 10: Greg and she and the young man they went to 307 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 10: elementary school and high school together. And the young one 308 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 10: of her friends Ella Khil that's her boyfriend, hayden Is. 309 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 10: They went into school through high school, so they've known 310 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 10: each other a long time. The other girl, her name 311 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 10: is Louise. I can't remember her last name right now. 312 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 10: She is Ella's roommate at UTSA. So we've never met 313 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,879 Speaker 10: her parents, but God bless her and we prayed that 314 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 10: all four of them are still alive, all four of 315 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 10: them missing. 316 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, they're all missing. 317 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 10: And you know it's it's been four o'clock, yes, yesterday 318 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 10: morning that we were told that. You know, they were 319 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 10: on the phone with Aidan's dad who they owned the house, 320 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 10: but there was a very nice house no longer there, 321 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 10: and Aiden said, hey, you. 322 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 2: Know, I've got to go. I gotta help Ella and Reese. 323 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 10: So he gave the phone to Joyce Catherine George Kenna 324 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 10: said they just got washed away, and then a few 325 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 10: seconds later the phone went dead and that's that's all 326 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 10: we know. 327 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 2: So we presume that she got washed away as well. 328 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 2: And if you go. 329 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 10: Back to where the house is, it's it's not a 330 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 10: good sign. And that's why I was telling you my 331 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 10: son and I were walking and I thought it was 332 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 10: a mannequin. It was a little boy about eight or 333 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 10: ten years old, and he was dead. 334 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 2: So we just saw that this morning. 335 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 10: Yes, so we you know, we're just walking and doing 336 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 10: the same thing we were doing. Look, you know when 337 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 10: we stumbled across him. Hopefully we can find our children, 338 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 10: our daughter and her friends alive. So anyway, I ask 339 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 10: you if he would pray, and whoever watches this thing. 340 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 7: Ray. 341 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 10: We got together and picked up our son and came 342 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 10: over here and we waited around at a center and 343 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 10: God bless them. 344 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 2: They're doing a great job. 345 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 10: It's in Ingram, Texas at the elementary school, and they're 346 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 10: kind of like the place where all the survivors are brought. 347 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 10: And we were hoping that we would hear our daughter 348 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 10: and friends' names called, but they never did call. So 349 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 10: we said this morning, we're going to come out and 350 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 10: try to find them ourselves. 351 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 2: I mean, you're. 352 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 9: Walking through this mess hoping for a miracle. 353 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 2: Man, keep the faith. That's all we can do. So 354 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 2: that's all I got. 355 00:21:58,359 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 3: Ed. 356 00:21:59,560 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 8: Thank you. 357 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 7: What is about your daughter? 358 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 10: Yes, he's a beautiful girl. And I think I sent 359 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 10: you a picture, just a wonderful girl. Couldn't ask for 360 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 10: a better daughter. 361 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 2: All from school. It was just easy, you. 362 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 10: Know, No no Shenanigans or anything like that. I mean, 363 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 10: she was a normal girl and would have fun. But yes, 364 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 10: we loved her dearly. 365 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 9: And Frederica, what just I found gut wrench, you know. 366 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 9: As we were winding down the interview there, as he 367 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 9: continued to search, he told me about how he read 368 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 9: a book years ago about a father during World War 369 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 9: Two whose child had been in a house that had 370 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 9: been bombed, and that the father spent days and days 371 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 9: combing through the rubble trying to search for his son 372 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 9: and never gave up. And after days of combing through 373 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 9: the rubble, the man during World War two found his kid. 374 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 9: And he just told me, he goes, I hope I'm 375 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 9: that guy today. 376 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 6: You know. 377 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 2: What's what's amazing with something like this is it makes 378 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 2: you realize what's important. It makes you realize you see 379 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 2: a guy who's lost his child, and you realize he 380 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 2: would give every worldly possession to have her back. He 381 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 2: would give his could give his own life, and that 382 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 2: really is a reminder of how better to live your life. 383 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 5: The Michael Berry Show Michael Berry show. 384 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 2: My wife finds the most adorable thing about little kids 385 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 2: when they are at that age where they lose their 386 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 2: front teeth and so they talk. They got it whistlin. 387 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 2: She thinks, if she finds a kid who has lost 388 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 2: their front teeth, you can't pull her away from them, 389 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 2: because she just loves to watch them talk. She thinks 390 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 2: it's the cutest thing ever. And one of the kids 391 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:24,640 Speaker 2: interviewed this weekend, little boy, he had lost his front 392 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 2: teeth and he was talking like this, and he was 393 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 2: talking all big stuff, and it just it really hit home. 394 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,399 Speaker 2: These are just little babies. I mean, these are just 395 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 2: precious little children losing their teeth, hoping for the next 396 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 2: superhero movie, thinking about being a princess, you know, whichever 397 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 2: sex they or whatever age are at. Just the things 398 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 2: that little kid being overly dramatic, I mean. 399 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 3: Just. 400 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 2: The things that little kid do that boy, oh boy, 401 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 2: how much their parents are going to miss with them gone. 402 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 2: A story from NBCDFW. I thought we'd for the close 403 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 2: of the show try to be a little more positive. 404 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,719 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I think while it was going on, I 405 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 11: kind of felt like a sense of numbness saying it 406 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 11: out loud is making me realize what actually happened and 407 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 11: how bad it actually is. 408 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 12: Just days after being dropped off to start a much 409 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 12: anticipated July term at Camp Mystic, thirteen year old Stella 410 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 12: is now processing the rains that ravaged the beloved camp 411 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 12: and claim the lives of so many children. Her sixth 412 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 12: summer at Mystic, Stella was on the Cypress lakeside when 413 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,120 Speaker 12: storms awoke her cabin early Friday morning, on higher ground 414 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 12: and out of view of the Guadalupe side. It wasn't 415 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 12: mental helicopters began buzzing overhead, she realized something was truly wrong. 416 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 11: I think it's the uncertainty that really shook up our cabin. 417 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 12: Eventually they were told campers wad looping and a bit 418 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 12: evacuated due to flooding, but had no idea the scope 419 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 12: of the crisis. 420 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 11: Eventually, when we got that news, we were all like 421 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 11: hysterical and praying a lot in the whole cabin was 422 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 11: like really really terrified, but not for. 423 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 12: Ourselves, worry for those on the other side. It wasn't 424 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 12: until military trucks arrived to evacuate their camp late Friday 425 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,199 Speaker 12: did they get a first glimpse of the devastation. 426 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 11: You'd see kayaks like in trees, and it was kind 427 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 11: of horrific because we had no idea. Some people saw 428 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 11: a couple of trunks and just like in the debris. 429 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 11: And then there was first responders in the water pulling 430 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 11: out like girls like sheets. I saw someone holding like 431 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 11: a cloth from the water, and there were huge trees 432 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,959 Speaker 11: ripped out of the ground and like their roots, and 433 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 11: it didn't look like Camp Mystic anymore. 434 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 12: Their thoughts remain with those grievy and those still waiting. 435 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 13: We are just so happy that she is safe and 436 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 13: we are with her and we have her, So that's 437 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 13: we are just grateful to be some of the fortunate ones. 438 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 13: So there's a sense of relief and an equal sense 439 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 13: of just awareness of that's not everybody's story, and that's 440 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 13: just two kind of competing emotions. 441 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 12: Touched by the outpouring of support for the Camp Mystic community. 442 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 13: We hope that all the folks who are still missing 443 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 13: loved ones are feeling that outpouring of love. 444 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 12: They are comforted by words often echoed by camp leaders. 445 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 11: A bell is not a bell until you ring it. 446 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 11: A song is not a song until you sing it. 447 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 11: The love in your heart was not put there to stay. 448 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,199 Speaker 11: Love is not love until you give it away. It 449 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 11: really showed me how much of an impact Can't Mystic 450 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 11: has had on our lives, and how amazing of a 451 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 11: place it is, and how horrible it is to see 452 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 11: it like this, because that's not cant Mystic. 453 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 2: There is a a real dilemma as to how to 454 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 2: properly relate to the rescues, to the survival. And I 455 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 2: believe that you should rejoice. I choose to rejoice. I 456 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 2: think that we are a complicated species with the higher 457 00:28:52,760 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 2: level of thinking and processing and coping, and we can 458 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 2: say I feel awful devastated for this family over here, 459 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:14,479 Speaker 2: and I feel jubilant for this family over here. I 460 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 2: think that's how you cope. I don't think there has 461 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 2: to be any shame in celebrating the rescues the survival. 462 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 2: Al writes, I'm seventy eight years old. I lost my 463 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 2: elder son twenty three years ago. I know loss. One 464 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 2: story from this tragedy has me crying each time I 465 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 2: think about it. Blair and Brooke Harbor, sisters who drowned 466 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 2: and were washed fifteen miles from Curville, found with their 467 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 2: hands locked together and I'm crying now thinking of the 468 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 2: heroism of Blair, the older sister with a life grip 469 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 2: on her little sister's hand, determined to save her sister Angels. 470 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 2: Nothing makes me prouder than when Michael t is protective 471 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 2: of his little brother. Nothing makes me prouder that he 472 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 2: cares so much for him. That story, which I had 473 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 2: heard before, it's just I mean, is there anything more 474 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 2: beautiful than to imagine she was going to hold onto 475 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 2: her little sister and save her little sister till the 476 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 2: very end. That doesn't mean they never fought, pulled their pigtails, 477 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 2: once stole the other's toothbrush, but to think when it 478 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 2: came down to it. Stephen in Nantucket, Massachusetts rights, My 479 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 2: wife and I are heartbroken. Our home was in the 480 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 2: Texas Hill Country for the last five years. We started 481 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 2: off in Spring Branch, the other Spring Branch close to 482 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 2: the Guadaloupe, fell in love with the river and two 483 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 2: being Then came the three year drought. The river dried 484 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 2: up to trickle for three years. Kenyon Lake also was 485 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 2: at record lows. People discovered unknown caves that were once underwater. 486 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 2: Then we lived in Comfort, next town south of Kerrville. 487 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 2: My job was driving dump trucks all through the hill country. 488 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 2: It breaks our hearts now two thousand miles away, wishing 489 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 2: we were there to help our neighbors. One of our 490 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 2: elders at church took the microphone from our pastor here 491 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 2: in New England and just started leading the church in 492 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 2: prayer for Texas, a very compassionate, heartfelt prayer. This whole 493 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 2: tragedy is in the hearts and prayers of many across America. 494 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 2: God bless Texas. Amen, we will get through this, and 495 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 2: we will see the heroism of it all, and we 496 00:31:49,440 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 2: will be better for it all. Sweet the something. 497 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 11: That scene 498 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 5: All the red line