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Texas Flood Victims’ Heartbreaking 3-Word Text To Family Before Dying Is Revealed

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Heartbreaking stories about the human cost of Texas’s deadly flash flood are continuing to emerge, including one about a final three-word message two sisters sent to their parents before the waters of the Guadalupe River took their lives.

Blair, 13, and Brooke Harber, 11, were clinging together even in death. Both girls were found with their “hands locked together” after being swept away by the rising waters that hit record heights over the weekend.

Trapped and afraid, both girls knew the chances of help arriving before they lost their grips were slim.

“I love you,” they texted their parents for the last time.

The Harber sisters are among 82 dead following the devastating flood, with another 42 still missing — many from a Christian girls’ camp at the epicenter of the natural disaster outside San Antonio.

Ten campers and a counselor are still unaccounted for from the site of Camp Mystic, where 27 so far have been found dead. Survivors describe the events as a “pitch black wall of death” enveloping their surroundings in just seconds.

The sudden rush of water, coupled with the lack of emergency readiness, has brought scrutiny on Texas officials accused of failing to implement costly projects that now appear justified in the face of an incalculable human toll.

The National Weather Service has extended its flash flood warning to Texas Hill Country, which is expected to receive another one to three inches of rain today.

The area of Texas is naturally prone to exceptional annual flooding. Friday’s flash flood was made worse by its overnight deluge, when a 3-foot river height rose to 34 feet in just 90 minutes.

President Donald Trump said that he plans to visit with Texas officials and the families of victims this Friday.

“We wanted to leave a little time,” he said, per Politico. “I would have done it today, but we’d just be in their way.”

Other Texas luminaries are speaking out about the tragic loss at Camp Mystic.

Former First Lady Laura Bush, who worked at the Christian camp in her youth, paid tribute to the victims swept away by the floods in the early hours of Saturday morning.

“Texas camps are institutions,” she told the Today Show Monday morning. “This camp was 100 years old, so grandmothers, mothers, kids have all gone there.”

“Many of my friends were there, had their kids there last week, and the stories that I heard over the last couple of days were beautiful and heartbreaking,” added her daughter, Jenna Bush.

Freeman Martin, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told the Daily Mail that rescue operations are running around the clock.

“It’s hot, there’s mud, they’re moving debris, there’s snakes,” he said about the conditions facing first responders.

Thomas Suelzar, adjutant general of the Texas Military Department, said manned and unmanned aircraft are patrolling the skies with advanced sensors to detect survivors — or bodies.

Camp Mystic said in a statement on its website that families are “grieving the loss” of 27 campers known to have perished.

“We have been in communication with local and state authorities who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls,” the camp wrote on Sunday.

“We are deeply grateful for the outpouring of support from community, first responders, and officials at every level.”