The man waiting for fate for 5 family members missing in Texas Flash overwrites

Six of Xavier Ramirez Family Members were near the Guadalupe River When it is overfilled in Tragic floods in Texas last weekhe said. Only one has come home.

Ramirez’s mother, Michelle Crossland, Stepdad Cody Crossland, Uncle Joel Ramos, Aunt Tasha Ramos and cousins ​​Kendall Ramos and Devyn Smith were all at HTR campsites outside Ingram, Texas, when the floods began on Friday 4 July, according to Devyn Smith NBC News.

The family had visited the campsite since Ramirez was just a boy, the 23-year-old told the outlet.

As of Sunday, July 6, one of Ramirez’s cousins, 23-year-old Smith, is the only person on the trip that did it, as far as he knows.

She was found in a tree about 20 miles down and is now recovering in a hospital, he told NBC News.

Now, like so many others, Ramirez is waiting to learn fate for the rest of his family. All he knows is how they spent their last moments before the flood rose, thanks to his cousin, NBC reported.

According to Smith, the family took some precautions because they knew it was extreme weather, according to NBC News.

They slept in trucks – his aunt and uncle in one and his mother, stepfather and teenage Scusine in another – Ramirez told the outlet. “They didn’t think it was safe in a tent,” he said.

When the river flooded early on Friday, his aunt first woke up and the family then rushed to climb through the truck, he told NBC News. His mother, Stepdad and Smith reached higher land with plans to find help.

“They lost my uncle first,” Ramirez told NBC News. “He had tried to keep them all together,” he recalled, but “could not hold on.”

On Saturday, July 5, a search led to traces of the camping trip, but not the campers. Ramirez told NBC News that one of the trucks was located in Ingram “against a tree, crushed and turning, not far from the campsite.”

With five of his family members still missing, Ramirez will come with “minute to minute, others to others,” he said.

That and he tries to stay strong for the sake of others.

“I’m the only boy, so I’m trying to keep it together the rest of the family,” he told NBC News.

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As of Sunday, July 6, more than 50 people, including 28 adults and 15 children, have been killed in the midst of lightning flows, according to NBC NewsThe CNN and Washington Post.

The death toll has risen steadily since Friday and many people are still not reported, Including several young girls from Camp MysticLocated near the Guadalupe river.

Much of the floods have taken place along the river – which goes from Kerr County to San Antonio Bay – according to CNN. The region experienced “more than a whole summer rain value” in a few hours, the outlet reported.

According to the data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) climbed the river to 34.76 feet at noon Local time on July 4.

Noaa described the floods as “catastrophic” and “life -threatening”, noting that it is spread “over a mile over in some areas, flooded many homes”, including “some to the ceiling.”