'I'm gonna die': 911 calls during Texas floods reflect desperation in the peak of disaster

The water level in the rain-swollen Guadalupe River was rising fast and the man calling the emergency dispatcher from a flooded home in the Texas Hill Country sounded desperate.“No place for us to go,” James Wright said.“Is it possible to get up on the roof?” the dispatcher asked

The water level in the rain-swollen Guadalupe River was rising fast and the man calling the emergency dispatcher from a flooded home in the Texas Hill Country sounded desperate.

“No place for us to go,” James Wright said.

“Is it possible to get up on the roof?” the dispatcher asked.

Wright quickly checked.

“Get off the phone,” he was heard telling his wife Donna. “We need to get to higher ground or we will die.”