Crews in Central Texas are in a desperate search for people missing in devastating flood waters.
Families of those who have died in the flooding are in anguish, including the family of a man who died trying to save them as floodwaters rose.
Christina Wilson and her fiancé, Julian Ryan, were at their home in Ingram, about 15 minutes from Kerrville, when they say everything happened all at once.
In the early Friday morning hours, floodwaters suddenly swelled into the home Ryan, 27, shared with his fiancée and mother close to the Guadalupe River.
“It just started pouring in, and we had to fight the door to get it closed to make sure not too much got in. We went back to the room and started calling 911,” Wilson said.
Wilson says after 20 minutes, the water was up to their knees.
Ryan punched open a window to try to get her, their children and his mother to the roof.
It severed his artery in his arm and almost cut it clean off,” Wilson said.
She says they kept calling 911, but no one came in time to save him.
“By 6, my husband was dead. He had lost all of his blood. He looked at me and the kids and my mother-in-law and said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m not going to make it. I love y’all.’”
Christina says she found her fiancé after the water receded, but his body wasn’t recovered for hours.
Connie Salas, Ryan’s sister, said, “He died a hero, and that will never go unnoticed.”
Wilson and family said they believe flood sirens could have saved lives.“We would have left,” Wilson said. “We would have gone anywhere else. We had so many places that were safe.”