{"id":39579,"date":"2025-07-05T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39579\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:52:09","slug":"north-texas-family-says-grandparents-among-the-missing-in-flooding-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39579\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas family says grandparents among the missing in flooding \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several North Texas families, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/texas-news\/6-fatalities-confirmed-in-hill-country-flooding-guadalupe-river-rises-22-feet-in-3-hours\/3878235\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including the parents of more than 20 girls from a summer camp<\/a>, are praying and waiting for answers as first responders search for their loved ones in flooded water.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Kerr County said 13 people have died in the historic flood along the Guadalupe River. None of the victims has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>The family of 66-year-old Joni Kay Brake and 67-year-old Robert Leroy Brake Sr. said the couple were visiting their youngest adult son and staying in Cabin 47 at an RV park along the Guadalupe River in Kerrville.<\/p>\n<p>The couple&#8217;s family said they called the campsite, which confirmed cabins had been swept away.<\/p>\n<p>The Burleson family said the grandparents live in Abilene but have family in North Texas. They&#8217;re asking anyone with information to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists said heavy tropical storms dumped as much as 14 inches of rain in the area, causing the Guadalupe River to rise in Hunt to near-record depths overnight. Between 1 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Friday, the river rose from about 7.5 feet\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/water.noaa.gov\/gauges\/08165500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">nearly 30 feet<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a 22-foot rise in about three hours. The NWS said they think the river was even higher,\u00a0but that the gauge was underwater and\u00a0was no longer reporting data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several North Texas families, including the parents of more than 20 girls from a summer camp, are praying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,8071,8580,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-39579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-extreme-weather","10":"tag-flooding","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114798129824391513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}