Had to have been at first light. Most of the flooding up the river was at 4 or 5am I believe.

Visitation tonight from 5-7 and basically all of Beaumont showed up Line out to parking lot for 2 hours and finally had to be cut off. My nephew was able to speak (have no idea how) and did great. Hundreds of pink flowers behind the altar.

Pink bows all over Beaumont. Lots of good folks still around.

Thank you!!

Praying for yall

Love to you and the family on what must be an unbelievably hard day, Derm.

God is good, always.

MD-TF1 Sending additional K9 resources. To my knowledge, there are only about 90 certified HR dogs in the country. I would guess that we have most of them here.

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Visitation tonight from 5-7 and basically all of Beaumont showed up Line out to parking lot for 2 hours and finally had to be cut off. My nephew was able to speak (have no idea how) and did great. Hundreds of pink flowers behind the altar.

Pink bows all over Beaumont. Lots of good folks still around.

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Awesome. The Golden Triangle always stands proud. As an Orange kid this makes me proud but also fills me with grief. Thoughts and prayers to you and yours.

Following this thread this past week and struggled how anything I could say would be comforting or different than what others have already said. My heart goes out to everyone that has been affected by this and as someone who does not cry much have found myself in tears so many times this week. Tears of joy and tears of sadness.

Derm - your steadfastness and faith have moved me and others throughout the past week. Prayers with your family as you lay Mary Grace to rest this weekend.

Popped open a bottle of All Great Things tonight that reminded me of the Hope that has come from this thread, from my fellow Aggies, and all those working tirelessly in the search and rescue efforts. These little girls are dancing in heaven tonight just like the little girl in the picture.

Daytona22 said:

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Following this thread this past week and struggled how anything I could say would be comforting or different than what others have already said. My heart goes out to everyone that has been affected by this and as someone who does not cry much have found myself in tears so many times this week. Tears of joy and tears of sadness.

Derm - your steadfastness and faith have moved me and others throughout the past week. Prayers with your family as you lay Mary Grace to rest this weekend.

Popped open a bottle of All Great Things tonight that reminded me of the Hope that has come from this thread, from my fellow Aggies, and all those working tirelessly in the search and rescue efforts. These little girls are dancing in heaven tonight just like the little girl in the picture.

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Love it!

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5-2 Stew 84 said:

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Do we know if Kellyanne has been found?

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Someone posted in the last page or two that she had been found today.

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https://ghcf.kimbia.com/thekellyanneelizabethlytalmemorialfoundation

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I've gotta brag. I own DQ in Marble Falls. One of my granddaughters friends is still missing from Mystic and we've sent some donations to Kerrville.
We felt the need to do something local to maybe aid in recovery of my friend and frequent customer Mike Phillips the rural VFD Chief that went missing during a rescue.
Yesterday we did an all proceeds donation day to a local group, ARC of Highland Lakes. With a knee jerk reaction and not much planning and virtually zero media assistance we still managed to close the day at about $14,000 which is about $10,000 higher than a normal Thursday.
I could not be more proud of my crew for pulling it off, and our small town for participating in this effort.
Now to speak with my CPA before writing the check. We will be donating all of it, not just profit.

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I'll be buying lunch from your restaurant for my staff in Marble Falls next time I'm out that way. I'll message you and we can provide some stuff for your team as well - thanking them for their work yesterday.

Hard to believe…if all the missing are determined to be deceased, I believe this will be the 2nd worst natural disaster (by death toll) in Texas history.

Event Year Deaths
Galveston Hurricane 1900 6,000- 12,000
2025 Floods 2025 ~280 (hypothetical)
Rio Grande Flood 1927 ~250
San Antonio Flood 1921 215
Hurricane Audrey 1957 ~390 (mostly in Louisiana, ~160 in TX)
Hurricane Harvey 2017 ~100 in TX
1935 Houston Flood 1935 ~80

Orange native too....we will be hanging up our pink & green bows tomorrow. The kids from Kelly is also a terrible story. As a mom of two girls , 8&10, & my niceces go to mystic, this has been a very hard week.

We were there as well, it was PACKED.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/texas/news/north-texas-couple-heroes-flood-warning-kerrville-tragedy/

Buddy who is down there working says the biggest need right now is divers. They are apparently trying to team a dog team with a diver...which I imagine is as awful as it sounds.

https://ibb.co/zVZ88TT6

Beautiful pink cotton candy sky tonight for all the sweet angels.

Independence H-D said:

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MD-TF1 Sending additional K9 resources. To my knowledge, there are only about 90 certified HR dogs in the country. I would guess that we have most of them here.

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Either 3 or 4 dogs are on my flight to SAT through Atlanta. I read Pennsylvania and Ohio TF1 on their shirts.

Apologies, Derm, was trying to post a photo for you but the internet and its infinite difficulties beat me.

Praying for you.

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I just saw this as well...

YETI Texas Strong: United for Kerrville

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"Texas Strong" is a registered trademark of t.u. Unless Yeti licensed it, they'll be getting (or have gotten) a cease and desist letter using that. Which may explain the "out of stock" references.

More inbound.

I saw that and went to go and sign up. They already said that divers stepped up and they are full! They said that the highest need is portable air fill and a handheld sonar

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Buddy who is down there working says the biggest need right now is divers. They are apparently trying to team a dog team with a diver...which I imagine is as awful as it sounds.

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I read the divers are doing their search by "feel" as they have almost zero sight underwater. How they mix a K9 into that... I am ignorant to that process.

Dog will pinpoint, pick up gases on the surface, then diver will go down. God bless them all

Was going to share this information but the video does a better job.

Also, if you know anything about our Hill country Rivers and streams, You have to deal with the cypress roots as well.

Think of it like noodling..... All by feel. The divers and rescue swimmers that are executing this task have giant brass clackers and unbelievable hearts.

I think about a few posts up where they said that this event is forever life changing. I'm pretty far removed from everything, outside of having two little girls who were on waitlists for camps in the area eventually. But like Mr. Rogers said "find the helpers" and if there aren't enough helpers, be a helper.

I submitted my info for some local search and recovery diver teams and started the process for re certifying my NREMT. With two little ones and a career, I let that all fall to the side. But this week really showed me that we all need to pull together, big and small, for our communities.

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Following this thread this past week and struggled how anything I could say would be comforting or different than what others have already said. My heart goes out to everyone that has been affected by this and as someone who does not cry much have found myself in tears so many times this week. Tears of joy and tears of sadness.

Derm - your steadfastness and faith have moved me and others throughout the past week. Prayers with your family as you lay Mary Grace to rest this weekend.

Popped open a bottle of All Great Things tonight that reminded me of the Hope that has come from this thread, from my fellow Aggies, and all those working tirelessly in the search and rescue efforts. These little girls are dancing in heaven tonight just like the little girl in the picture.

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Beautiful: the sentiment and the bottles.

This is a unique time in the lives of so many. The numbers are staggering. This flood has taken so much from far too many. I've been watching the events unfold from far outside of Texas.

I agree that at times it is hard to say anything new, but at the same time I know from experience that knowing people are praying and thinking of you in the middle of tragedy can bring comfort. This community at TexAgs is genuinely like none other.

The stories shared here have been hard reads or hard watches, but it is important to share. To those of you sharing, thank you.

I am in awe of those helping on the ground in recovery efforts. I'm equally thankful and in awe of those supporting the recovery workers and dogs. Praying for these groups daily, as well.

My prayers continue for all of the families and communities impacted, for the survivors who will face so much including fear and survivor's guilt, for those lost may they be found, for those grieving as they bury their loved ones, and for the parents who have to face a full year of firsts.

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DoitBest said:

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I just saw this as well...

YETI Texas Strong: United for Kerrville

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"Texas Strong" is a registered trademark of t.u. Unless Yeti licensed it, they'll be getting (or have gotten) a cease and desist letter using that. Which may explain the "out of stock" references.

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I have to assume they know that as they are probably yeti's biggest partnership……

Dermypoo, we're holding you, your family, and all the families who are laying to rest their little girls today, deep in our hearts. May God spread the comfort and peace only He can give over all of you today.

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https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/

This is terrifying, heartbreaking, and miraculous all in one story about the flood. Not camp related, but a first hand account from a family that had a house in Hunt.

If this isn't the appropriate forum, just delete the post.

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I cannot even begin to imagine going through that, especially the mom.

she can take solace in that she saved one of the children and she did everything she could to hold on. All of the men dont have that comfort.

awful. I cant imagine for any of them.

My neighbor snapped this photo of a rainbow over our house yesterday and sent it to me. Only posting because the rainbow framed the ribbon that my wife put on the mailbox. There's not really much awareness where we live in Florida about the memorial ribbons for flood victims.

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Dermypoo, we're holding you, your family, and all the families who are laying to rest their little girls today, deep in our hearts. May God spread the comfort and peace only He can give over all of you today.

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Thanks. Still so impressed by my nephew being able to get up in front of all those people and talk about Mary Grace.

At least today the immediate family gets to sit most of the time today. And I found out I finally outgrew the only suit I have (had it for about 25 years) so sport coat it is. I do have a pink tie.

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Ag87H2O said:

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https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/

This is terrifying, heartbreaking, and miraculous all in one story about the flood. Not camp related, but a first hand account from a family that had a house in Hunt.

If this isn't the appropriate forum, just delete the post.

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I cannot even begin to imagine going through that, especially the mom.

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That was so hard to read. I had opened it yesterday but didn't want to read it. Decided to this morning while drinking my coffee. Absolutely heartbreaking to read. So many people and kids will have major ptsd after this. I continue to pray daily for everyone affected by this tragedy

Clarke is a special guy.