Texas Woman Sends Last Words Before Flash Flood Consumes Her Home

A 21-year-old woman from Texas sent her family a heartbreaking text message moments before the floodwaters surged into the house she was living in, screaming for help as the rushing waters took her away.

The Guadalupe River roared across Central Texas over the Fourth of July holiday, and the floodwaters rose so quickly that they destroyed homes, campgrounds, and lives in their path.

AFP says that “torrential rains” started the night before the holiday and that “the river rose to the height of a two-story building in less than an hour, flooding parts of Kerr County.” As of July 9, NBC said that at least 107 people have died in six counties. More than two dozen children and staff from an all-girls Christian camp are on the victim list.

There are still a lot of people missing, and the number of deaths will only increase up as the hunt goes on.

Joyce Badon, 21, and her three friends—Aiden Heartfield, Reese Manchaca, and Ella Cahill—were some of the people who were missing. They were spending the July 4th weekend together at a cottage on a farm by the river.

The house was gone by the early morning hours.

Ty Badon, Joyce’s father, told CNN that the family last heard from the group when Aiden’s dad, who owns the house they were living in, called them.

“Someone told us they were on the phone…” He remarked, “The phone is dead,” and then he replied, “The house is gone.”

Badon reported that Aidan told his dad, “Hey, I have to leave.” Ella and Reese need my aid. “They just got washed away,” and then the phone went silent a few seconds later. The 21-year-old’s father remarked, “That’s all we know,” remembering the last time he talked to the group.

“Flash flood” Kellye, Joyce’s mother, made a heartfelt message on Facebook requesting people to pray for her daughter.

“A flash flood came and snatched their cars away. She claimed, “It happened so fast, and there was so much water that they couldn’t get to the attic.” “Aidan Heartfield called his dad during the event, but the debris swept him and two other people away.”

Kellye reported that Joyce was the last person Aiden’s dad talked to.

The mother ended the July 4 post by saying, “We pray for JC and her friends’ safety.” We are going to believe that we will discover my daughter and her friends alive in Hunt, Texas, today.

There have been a number of victims found.
Volunteers worked in teams to look amid the wreckage and along the riverbanks in search of Joyce and her pals. Sadly, some of the volunteers found the bodies of other people.

“There was a lot of trash around one of the bodies, which was 8 to 10 feet up in a tree. Louis Deppe, a volunteer in charge of looking for the Badon family, remarked, “The more eyes, the better, since no one could see it.”

Joyce’s dad also found a body.

When my son and I were walking, I thought it was a mannequin. Ty said, “He was a little boy, eight or ten years old, and he was dead.” “We were just walking like we always do when we saw him.”

Take control and split up.
Tina Hambly, a friend of Joyce’s mother, was also hunting for the college students, expecting to find them alive.

Hambly told AFP, “We’re going seven miles.” “We’re doing a mile with each of the seven teams…” “We’re just splitting up the work and taking care of everything that way.”

“But you know, we’re friends and family, and to be honest, some people we don’t know have shown up,” she remarked.

Joyce found
Joyce’s family got the news they had been dreading on July 7.

In an interview with NBC News, the girl’s father said where her body was. Later, Kellye Badon, the girl’s mother, penned a moving tribute on Facebook to their “lovely” daughter, honoring the young life that was cut short too soon.

“God told us what to do this morning!” Kellye wrote. “We found our beautiful daughter, who made us happy for 21 years!” We hope that we can find her three friends shortly. Thank you everybody for your prayers and help. “God is good!”

She uploaded again hours later, this time with a photo of a rainbow over the Badon’s house.

She also wrote, “Joyce Catherine is telling us from heaven, ‘All is well with my soul.'”

Last text
Louis Deppe, a volunteer in charge of the search, stated that Joyce sent one last text begging for help just before the floods started to sweep her away.

According to People, Deppe told AFP that the last message Joyce’s family got on her phone was “We’re being washed away,” and then the phone went silent.

Reports say that Reese’s body has been found, but Aiden and Ella are still missing.

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