{"id":1570,"date":"2025-07-08T18:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:13:14","slug":"texas-dad-got-swept-away-while-holding-tight-to-his-babies-eyewitness-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Texas dad got swept away while \u2018holding tight to his babies,\u2019 eyewitness says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Devastating Floods in Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas faces a tragic disaster as violent flash floods sweep through, causing destruction and loss of life. More than 100 people have died, with many still missing. Rescue teams work tirelessly amid dangerous conditions, searching for survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Father\u2019s Final Moments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One heartbreaking story is of John Burges from Liberty, Texas, who clung to a tree holding his two sons as floodwaters swept them away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorena Guillen, an RV park owner who witnessed the event, said, \u201cThe man was holding tight to his babies, and he just got swept away.\u201d John and his family remain missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Camp Mystic Tragedy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Camp Mystic, a girls\u2019 summer camp by the Guadalupe River, 27 children and staff died, and 11 are missing. The camp mourns, saying, \u201cOur hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camp director Richard Eastland died while guiding children to safety; his grandson wrote, \u201cIf he wasn\u2019t going to die of natural causes, this was the only other way \u2014 saving the girls that he so loved and cared for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating Floods in Texas Texas faces a tragic disaster as violent flash floods sweep through, causing destruction and loss of life. More than 100 people have died, with many still missing. Rescue teams work tirelessly amid dangerous conditions, searching for survivors. A Father\u2019s Final Moments One heartbreaking story is of John Burges from Liberty, Texas,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}