Surviving the Flood: A Camper's Tale of Bravery on the Guadalupe River

A young camper in Texas shared with Scripps News what he experienced as the Guadalupe River started to flood cabins on July 4. Camp La Junta is one of over two dozen camps that line the Guadalupe River in that part of Texas.

Keli Rabon's sons, Braeden, age 9, and Roth, age 7, were at Camp La Junta during the storm that led to the Guadalupe River's catastrophic flooding. Rabon explains what she learned on July 4 as floodwaters knocked out power and cell service to the camp.

"I wake up about four in the morning and we hear kids screaming from outside," Braeden Davis recalled in an interview with Scripps News. "At first I thought it was a prank or something, but then I noticed it was raining, and there was really loud thunder and lightning everywhere. So I started to get worried."

Later on in the day, the cabin that had flooded came into their cabin and told them about the destruction they saw.