Cracks hearts the last sms sent by two sisters, 13 -year -old Blair and 11 -year -old Brooke Harber, who were among the dozens of victims from the murderous flooding that hit the Texas On the weekend (05-06.07.2025). They wrote ‘We love you’, A few minutes before they are carried away by the rushing waters and lose their lives.
The girls were found dead and hand in hand After the Guadeloupe River overwhelmed, reaching record levels, flooding the area around the Camp in Texas where they were vacationing with their family for the weekend of July 4. Unfortunately, they failed to escape the deadly floods.
Blair and Brooke stayed in a wooden house of renting houses near the river, Together with their grandparents, Mike and Charlene Harber. Their parents, RJ and Anniethey were in a different room in the Casa Bonita complex, a little further, in the Hunt area.
According to Dailymail, children’s parents woke up on Friday morning from water noise flooding their accommodation. Managed to be saved by jumping out of the window as the water level had reached the height of their throats.
THE Father desperately tried to reach kayak in the cabin where his daughters and parents were. Yet The inflated waters dragged him and hit in a polebefore he manages to reach his destination.
A timelapse video provided by an eyewitness showed floodwaters rising over a causeway in Kingsland, Texas, completely submerging it in the span of a few minutes https://t.co/qqaiRP5m1y pic.twitter.com/VK8cwRgL4C
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 7, 2025
According to the latest account, At least 82 people lost their lives along the river Guadeloupi, outside of San Antonio, while 41 remain missing. Among them, ten girls and one group in Camp Mystic – a camp in the same area – where 27 people died in the rushing floods.
Survivors described the waters as a “death river” and complained that they did not receive any urgent warning about the upcoming danger. Local authorities are now receiving strong criticism of the delay in informing and the lack of evacuation.
The US National Weather Service expanded the alarm for sudden floods in the Texas Hill Country area, where an additional 2-7 cm of rain is expected by 7pm (local time).
Dead 27 Camp Camp and Camp of Camp Mystic
The management of the Camp Mystic Female Camp announced today that 27 campers and teammates died in the devastating floods in Central Texas.
“Camp Mystic mourns the deaths of 27 campers and groups from the devastating floods on the Guadaloup River”, announced Camp address.
This video of the Guadalupe was shot in Kerrville, Tx from the Center Bridge. Watch how fast these flood waters were traveling & washing everything in front of it out.
It goes from low & barley flowing to over the top of the bridge in around 35 minutes.
I sped the video up to… pic.twitter.com/NcQe4UAQBa— Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) July 6, 2025
The report of the victims of the floods that hit Friday, the state of Texas, has reached 80 dead and is almost certain that it will continue to become even more heavier, local authorities announced yesterday, as long as the hopes of finding some ten children.
The sudden floods, caused by the heavy rains in the central part of the state, raised the river level by eight meters within 45 minutes to which the female camp was located. About 750 children participated in the camp.
Why didn’t the flood alert system worked
Despite the alerts issued by the Meteorological Service since Thursday, the severity of rainfall and the speed of water level rising overnights have testified to death and destruction in the area.
The previous serious floods in the state of Texas were marked the 2017 When it was hit by Hurricane Harvey with the report being 89 dead, according to the US Ocean and Atmosphere Monitoring Service (NOAA).
Most of the victims -at least 68 -come from the County of Kerr, northwest of San Antonio, where the water level of the Guadalupe River suddenly went up.
Ker’s county is known for its mild climate, aquatic leisure parks and resorts. Among them, Camp Mystic, Christian Camp of Girls 8 to 18 years old, It is located on the banks of the river and was hit hard.
Three more counties located east, near the capital of Astin, Texas, Travis, Williamson and Bernet, leaked by Guadalupe or smaller rivers also mourn victims.
In all these areas, limestone rocks are a key geological factor that increases the speed and severity of flooding phenomena by favoring the very rapid flow of water after the saturation of the soil, according to a specialist who spoke on public radio.
Her Thursday 3 July In an advanced afternoon, National Weather Service, the US Meteorological Service of the Antin Antonio region, emits the First notice of floods in Ker County and her surroundingswarning of heavy rainfall, for rain of 18 cm, ie for volume 170 liters of water per square meter.
OR first notice For floods transmitted to 23.41 local time and follows at 01.14 The announcement of a “major” danger to the counties of Ker and Bandera. The alerts through mobile phones and radio are then broadcast.
Notifications «Flash Flood Emergency»the highest level of alarm, follow in 04.00 and at 05.30 – In an hour when many people sleep and have turned off their phones – for Kerr and the banks of the Guadalupe River. Messages warn of the risk of losing lives and call for the evacuation of the zones that are expected to flood.
In the heart of the night, the Water level of the Guadalupe River River rises by 6 to 9 meters Depending on the area, the waters flood the surrounding area, cut roads and destroy dams. Impressive is the Timelapse video.
For the counties of Travis and Bernetnotifications are sent the next night of the 4th to July 5th.
The disaster has reinstated the debate on improving alarm systems in rural areas that do not have good mobile networks, as well as the issue of coordination between local and federal authorities to ensure that notifications are emitted quickly and effectively.
The Trump government is facing criticism of cuts in NOAA, which belongs to the National Weather Service responsible for sending alerts to the population.
In February 2025, the Doge Committee, tasked with federal spending cuts, under the direction of Ilon Musk, filed redundancies at NOAA, resulting in 10% of its staff, according to the US press.
The Democratic opposition complained in May that the federal service no longer has enough experts to be prepared for meteorological disasters.
In the midst of the Texas disaster, the Trump government mobilized the FEMA federal service to deal with hurricanes, fires and other disasters.
The service was just escaping to break up in January, as he was one of the first to do that Donald Trump intended to abolish.