A Texas dad was left clinging to his children during the floods and they were all swept away, according to a local resident.

Lorena Guillen, owner of the Blue Oak RV Park in Kerr County, shared on Monday: “My husband was in the water trying to ask them, ‘Please throw me your baby!’ The man was holding tight to his babies, and he just got swept away,”.

The man, John Burgess, is amongst the victims confirmed dead. His wife, Julia, and their two young boys are still missing. Their daughter was luckily staying at a summer camp and is safe.

The family had travelled to the park on July 4 for a vacation.

Guillen shared: “The kids were so excited to be here,”. She revealed that all 28 RV’s at the park were destroyed in the floods: “We heard people screaming throughout the night,”, “The cabins from the RV park next door came floating, and they were getting smashed against the trees.”

” ‘Help me! Help me!’ — that was the main thing. You heard a lot of screaming, it was just too much,” Guillen revealed.

The owner revealed that she had been given a warning on Friday morning after the rain became heavy: “About 2:30 [a.m.], I couldn’t sleep. I went all the way to the edge of the water, and I looked down at the river, and it was fine,” she shared.

“I called the sheriff’s department at that time, and they had no information how the river levels were. I asked them, ‘Do I need to evacuate?’ and they said, ‘We have no information right now, we don’t know.’ “

An hour later, she was awoken to the lights of the rescuers: “My husband and I ran down. By then, the first level of the RVs were already washing away. The river went up about 10 feet at that time. A family of five was stranded because they were the ones closest to the river. Their RV was floating away. It was pitch black, it was so dark,” she said.

Eight bodies were found on Sunday and the neighboring RV park had 40 missing residents.

Guillen shared: “I don’t understand why we don’t have alarms blaring in every single property or every mile down the road,” she said. “But something needs to change. Hopefully I’ll never get to see this in my lifetime.”

“I think they did the best they could with what they had. The river flooding authorities not having a budget enough to have censors and alarms installed — that’s the part that should have been changed. Without having a budget or resources, their hands are tied as well,” she said.

“Nobody ever remembers a flood this bad. I have friends who are 90 years old and they don’t remember a flood that bad.” she added.

Heartbreaking.