Amanda Jones of Anderson was camping along the Guadalupe River near Kerrville with her husband, four children, and three dogs when storms began moving through the area late Thursday night. They arrived at their campsite on July 3 around 3 p.m. and had settled in by early evening, pitching their tent roughly 20 yards from a tributary of the river.

A Texas father of two, Julian Ryan, is being hailed as a hero after sacrificing his life amid the Texas Hill Country floods to save his family. Reportedly, Ryan almost lost his arm to carry out his selfless sacrifice.

Amid catastrophic flooding sweeping across Texas, a young father’s final, heartbreaking words have come to define both the devastation and the heroism from the storms.