KERRVILLE, Texas — A stricken dad clinging to a tree while holding “his babies” during the floods refused to toss the kids to residents, and they were all soon swept away, a shattered local said 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,” said Lorena Guillen, owner of the Blue Oak RV Park in Kerr County, the region hardest hit by the state’s catastrophic flooding last week.
The tragic dad, John Burgess, who lived in Liberty, Texas, is among the confirmed dead, KWTX reported.
His wife, Julia, and two young sons are still missing, while the couple’s daughter, who was staying at a nearby summer camp, is safe.
The family had come to the RV park for the July 4 holiday, Guillen said.
