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| Overnight, rivers and creeks raised as much as 25 feet in the Texas Hill Country, just west of Austin, Texas. | |
| I have deep roots there. | |
| I have a lot of family lives out there. | |
| I vacation out there very often, especially around the 4th of July. | |
| A few weeks ago, I was considering renting a cabin out on the Main River that actually completely flooded over 25 feet. | |
| It swept away a Christian camp. | |
| 23 little girls are missing. | |
| You have to understand that the Texas hill country is very, very rocky. | |
| There's really no soil and it's just a lot of scrub brush. | |
| And that when it floods and when four or five feet of water hit the ground, it's explosively dangerous. | |
| So when I got up this morning and saw that huge storm that looked like a hurricane just boiling, and I looked at the time lapse that had been there for five or six hours overnight, I was, I told my family this morning when I got up at like 7 a.m., I said, this is going to be a lot of death. | |
| But it's worse than I even thought. | |
| 4th of July is when everybody goes out there. | |
| Willie Nelson used to have his famous 4th of July picnic out there in Lukenbach. | |
| He's actually having it tonight with Bob Dylan here in Austin. | |
| So that gives you an idea how many people are out there. | |
| I mean, I have a lot of friends, a lot of family that actually were vacationing out and around there. | |
| They weren't on the main rivers. | |
| But I've made a few calls. | |
| They haven't called me back. | |
| It is a disaster zone. | |
| And here's the other thing. | |
| You can see the videos on access on the front page with the helicopters and the people you lower down on winches and the sheriff's department, state police. | |
| I mean, they are out there risking their lives. | |
| I mean, this is dangerous. | |
| You're talking about just blasting water like out of a fire hose. | |
| But, you know, a million times that. | |
| I mean, it's more than a million times that. | |
| It's just crazy. | |
| So, you know, people went to sleep last night. | |
| They didn't know. | |
| Boom. | |
| In this came in the middle of the night. | |
| So pray for folks. | |
| This is going to be a major historic disaster. | |
| I would imagine they're already saying 16 dead now and hundreds and hundreds of missing, 23 at one little girl's camp. | |
| I think you're going to have hundreds of dead. | |
| So this has happened before. | |
| There's hits climate change and all the rest of it. | |
| No, it's Texas still country, but still doesn't lessen the fact that it's terrible. | |
| And as California, everybody have moved down here. | |
| These folks don't know about this. | |
| Other parts of the country, people will drive across, you know, a stream or a blocked road. | |
| There's signs everywhere in Texas. | |
| Don't do it. | |
| Because it can be six inches of water and 30 seconds later, five feet of it, like a little tsunami comes in. | |
| And my whole life, my family said, you know, don't do it. | |
| And a few times I've barely made it going through. | |
| All of a sudden, the water goes wire going across a couple feet and your car starts going like this and I barely made it across. | |
| That was when I was a teenager. | |
| I've learned like you come up to one of those roads with a foot of water on it, don't try it because any second, boom. | |
| So it's not good. | |
| So it's going to be really, really bad. | |
| Like I said, I got friends and family that are out in the general area and they're not answering the phone, so I'm sure they're fine, but it must total beddling. | |
| Total, total beddling out there. | |
| Out in Hunt and Fredericksburg and Lukenbach and all those places. | |
| Like I said, it's all these hills and mountains and then just sheer rock, scrub brush. | |
| That water comes in and it's just boom. | |
| I, uh... | |
| All three of my daughters, even though two are adults, they know are counselors out of a big camp. | |
| It's out in that area. | |
| But one of them was a counselor and got back last week. | |
| And then the younger one's going in a week for her week. | |
| And then my older daughter goes back as a main counselor. | |
| So they're even in that area. | |
| Just to give you a little example of skin of the game, it really hits me because they're not in one of those areas that will be hit like that, but they're close. | |
| This is like really horrible. | |
| Pray for these families. | |
| God, I hope those little girls are okay. | |
| This really sucks. |
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