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Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 82 people in central Texas.

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00:00First of all, our thoughts and prayers go out to all those families still searching for information about their loved ones and lost ones.
00:10And in this case, this is my parents' house. They're in their 80s.
00:1411 o'clock at night, they started having the water rise and come into their house, so they were able to escape up the hill.
00:21And they got word of their neighbor being stuck in her attic, so they went over and rendered aid and got her out.
00:27She's 92 years old. Then they were able to reach their tool shed up higher ground.
00:34And neighbors throughout the early morning began to show up at their tool shed, and they all wrote it out together.
00:41We've been trying to render assistance to our neighbors here and begin to pull out things as we can and salvage what we can, just a general cleanup effort.
00:51This is probably trash and maybe resale shop.
00:55So our neighbor, who's 92 years old, we pulled, my parents pulled her out of the attic.
01:00She's never seen anything like it.
01:01So this is the highest anybody that we know has ever witnessed the water in this valley.
01:06So we can't get the side of it.
01:09We don't want to get in.
01:13TFB!
01:14TFB!
01:15TFB!

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