US Edition'We Were Saved by God': Family of 9 Escaped Texas Flood Through Sleeping Loft on Top of Their House
TEXAS, JUL 14 – Floodwaters destroyed homes and killed over 100 people in Texas, including children at a Christian summer camp, with many others still missing, officials said.
- A family of nine, including an 83-year-old woman, escaped heavy flooding in Hunt, Texas, by sheltering in a sleeping loft on their roof on July 4, 2025.
- The flooding intensified quickly as water surged into their home, prompting the family to act swiftly with men devising a plan to evacuate everyone safely.
- They enlarged a small hole in the loft using a pocket knife, got the babies out first with mothers, and sang hymns while waiting for floodwaters to recede after an hour and a half.
- Penny Dupree said, "It just went south from there," and the family believes their faith and prayer helped save them during the ordeal.
- The family escaped unharmed, but the flood killed over 100 people in Texas, causing widespread destruction and many missing persons across affected towns.
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HUNT, Texas (KXAN) -- Jenna Lair said her dad, Billy Hughes, bought his house in the Bumble Bee Hill neighborhood of Hunt more than 40 years ago. "He's so far from the river, not in the floodplain," Lair said. So the call she got around 5 a.m. on July 4 shocked her. "He said I'm waist deep, the kitchen table is floating, I don't know what to do," she recanted. "He said he was sitting in the recliner in his living room, heard the toilet gurgle, s…
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