Texas man tries to 'hold it together' with 5 family members missing after floods

Xavier Ramirez's family had been at a campground in Texas' Kerr County when the waters of the Guadalupe River began to quickly rise.

KERRVILLE, Texas — In the sticky Texas heat with night approaching, Xavier Ramirez waited outside Calvary Temple Church hoping for a miracle — that somehow his mom, stepfather, aunt, uncle and cousin weren’t swallowed by Texas’ bloated Guadalupe River.

Ramirez, 23, from Midland, was at the church in Kerrville with weariness in his eyes. He was getting by “minute to minute, second to second,” he said.

One of his cousins, Devyn Smith, who had been at HTR Campgrounds outside Ingram when the Guadalupe River burst from its banks, had been found late Friday and was recovering at Peterson Regional Medical Center, he said.

Smith, 23, was found about 20 miles downriver outside Center Point in a tree, Ramirez said.

But she was one of six who’d been at the campground outside Ingram in Kerr County.