{"id":53220,"date":"2025-07-10T04:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53220\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T04:46:11","slug":"fort-worth-couple-anxiously-awaits-news-of-friend-after-texas-flood-disaster-destroys-rv-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53220\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth couple anxiously awaits news of friend after Texas flood disaster destroys RV park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Couple Couple awaits news of friend after Texas flooding<\/a> <\/p>\n

The catastrophic flooding in Central Texas has left over 170 people missing, with families desperately searching for loved ones like Bill Huston, whose dog was found, and the discovery of a pill bottle belonging to another missing person highlighting the wide-ranging devastation.<\/p>\n

KERR COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> – More than 170 people are still missing due to the Texas flooding disaster in Central Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Fort Worth couple tells Fox 4\u2019s Peyton Yager that they tried to call their friend early on Friday morning, when they heard reports of a devastating flood in Kerr County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They haven’t heard from him and are losing hope.<\/p>\n

61-year-old Bill Huston and his RV were parked feet from the Guadalupe River in the town of Ingram, where Huston and his corgi, Sage, slept at night.<\/p>\n

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Russell and Melissa Offringa are waiting for an update on their best friend. Sage’s body has been found, but Huston is still missing.<\/p>\n

What they’re saying:<\/p>\n

Russell and Huston met 40 years ago at Navy bootcamp and then reconnected when the two moved to North Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Huston stayed in Aledo before moving down to Kerr County’s HTR Texas Hill Country RV Park earlier this year, for a construction job.<\/p>\n

“Bill thought so much of his dog. It was precious to him. You know the last thing he was doing was holding onto her,” said Russell.<\/p>\n

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“You have to have hope because what else do you have? But yeah, it’s tough.”<\/p>\n

The campground is cleared as all the trailers and cabins are now gone due to the flooding.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s the silent moments when the data is not coming in. You aren’t getting any more information. That is when it really hits home,” said Melissa.<\/p>\n

Missing person’s pill bottle <\/p>\n

Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

Still unaccounted for from the fourth of July flood is one, Al Iorio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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His home in Ingram, Texas was washed away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Five miles downstream, a Prosper woman, Elizabeth Copeland, was visiting a Kerrville RV Park and found this green pill bottle in the debris, prescribed to Al Iorio.<\/p>\n

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“Just something told me to go look up the name on the bottle and I did. The first post that came up on Facebook was a lady on Facebook,” said Copeland.<\/p>\n

That woman was Iorio’s friend looking for any sign of him and Copeland met up with the woman in Kerrville.<\/p>\n

“Closure could sometimes be a medicine bottle, or a jersey, or a t-shirt.”<\/p>\n

Search continues <\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

Days into the grueling search, families, like the Offringa’s, are yearning for that closure.<\/p>\n

At the same time, struggling to process the likely outcome, wishing those along the river had more warning.<\/p>\n

“There was just nowhere to go,” said Russell.<\/p>\n

Huston\u2019s coworkers in Kerr County are on the ground searching for him and providing updates to the Offringa’s. The Fort Worth couple actually went down to visit Huston a few weeks ago and stayed at the same RV park.<\/p>\n

An RV park that is now gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> Information in this article was provided from interviews conducted by FOX 4’s Peyton Yager.<\/p>\n

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