Stricken Texas floods survivor recalls seeing people ‘die’ in worst way… as new photos of Camp Mystic emerge: Live updates

Stricken Texas floods survivor recalls seeing people ‘die’ in worst way… as new photos of Camp Mystic emerge: Live updates

A Texas flood survivor has recalled the blood-curdling screams of families trapped in RVs, pounding on windows as raging floodwaters swept them away. 

Lorena Guillen, owner of the Blue Oak RV Park in Ingram, near San Antonio, went door-to-door in the early hours of Friday morning, frantically trying to wake her residents as water surged around them.

But as the flood rose foot by foot, she watched helplessly as vehicles floated by with families still inside, ‘screaming’ for help and ‘banging against the windows.’

Blue Oak, a popular spot for RVs and stay-in cabins is no longer standing — all that remains are the slabs where cabins once stood. 

As of Tuesday morning, the flash floods have taken the lives of at least 104 people, with authorities warning the death toll is almost certainly going to continue to rise. 

The search for missing people continues today, but efforts are now considered recovery missions.

Efforts are focused further west along the Guadalupe River at Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp where 27 campers and counselors died after being swept away by floodwaters. 

Haunting photos captured inside the cabins show how the century-old camp that thousands of women have once called home now resembles a scene from a horror disaster film.

Texas floods death toll tops 100

The Texas floods death toll rose to 104 overnight.

Kendall County, which sits around 18 miles from downtown San Antonio, reported six deaths Monday.

Twenty-seven people remain missing and the final death total will almost certainly continue to rise.

Haunting photos of Camp Mystic devastation emerge after camp confirms 27 are dead

Survivor recalls moment RV park residents were swept away by raging Texas floods

Lorena Guillen, owner of the Blue Oak RV Park in Ingram, went door-to-door in the early hours of Friday morning to wake her residents as the Guadalupe River rapidly started rising foot-by-foot.

But as Guillen was leading evacuation efforts in her small community, she saw cars float past her with families stuck inside.

‘It was pitch black, so all you could see was the lights floating and people screaming and banging against the window and honking,’ she told The Wall Street Journal.

She said the storm came essentially out of nowhere and arrived so quickly that water levels were up 10 feet in just one hour.

The businesswoman claims she called the Kerr County Sheriff’s department around 2am to ask if she needed to evacuate, but was told they had no information.

By 3.30am everyone at Blue Oak was forcibly leaving their homes.

She told WSJ: ‘It was just raining, you know, like nothing. We did have a warning, a flash flood warning, but this…is very, very normal for the Hill Country.’

All 33 RVs in her community were eventually washed away by the deadly storm.

Guillen revealed in previous interview with WOAI-TV that all of her residents except one family-of-five made it out of the floods safely.

KERRVILLE, TEXAS - JULY 7: A view of the debris left by deadly flooding in Texas' Hill Country near the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas on July 7, 2025. (Photo by Jorge Salgado/Anadolu via Getty Images)
"You can see a lot of vehicles floating away with the lights on and you can hear a lot of honking and people banging against the windows screaming for help": RV park owner Lorena Guillen on what she saw and heard the night of the devastating floods in central Texas.

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