Heart-wrenching video showed campers dancing and having fun at Camp Mystic just hours before dozens of them were swept away in the tragic flash flooding.
The all-girls Christian camp near the Guadalupe River, Texas, was hosting 750 girls for the summer when a heavy deluge on Friday night swept away the camp in the dead of night.
Cabins housing the eight and nine year old girls were the worst hit. At least 27 campers and counselors are confirmed dead in the tragedy, with 11 more missing.
Video taken by Camp Mystic nurse Devon Paige captured the joy and fun of camp in the hours before the tragedy.
The girls danced and ran around the food hall, played running games in the grass and cheered each other on in the heartwarming video.
They were blissfully unaware of the horrors to come just hours later.
The death toll for the Fourth of July holiday weekend tragedy surpassed 100 on Monday, climbing to at least 104 as rescues scoured the debris for bodies.
First responders are still hopeful that they’ll find survivors four days after the tragedy, but have acknowledged that the window is quickly closing.
Heartwrenching video captured before tragic flash flooding struck Camp Mystic showed the campers dancing and having fun just hours before dozens of them were swept to their deaths
The girls danced and ran around the food hall, played running games in the grass and cheered each other on in the heartwarming video
Paige later shared a series of devastating videos en route to the reunification center after the floods struck.
One of the eerie videos captured the moment a bus full of singing girls fell nearly silent as they were confronted with the devastation of the floods.
The girls were singing Christian hymns in unison, trying to stay calm as their bus navigated the dangerous drive to safety.
But their voices suddenly faded, replaced by gasps and quiet cries of ‘oh my god, oh my god’ as the true scale of the destruction came into view.
The footage shows the bus moving through floodwaters, passing downed trees, submerged streets, wrecked homes, and cars tossed together like toys.
‘The girls are singing to try and calm everyone,’ Paige said.
‘This is footage from my evacuation and everything I saw. I wish you could see before shots to show how truly devastating it is.’
The video moved thousands on TikTok, with many users comparing the scene to a real-life horror movie.
Both Janie Hunt (left) and Sarah Marsh (right) are among the young campers who tragically died
A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 27 girls have tragically died
Operators of Camp Mystic, a century-old, all-girl summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, said on Monday 10 girls and one counselor remain missing.
The raging flash floods — among the nation’s worst in decades — slammed into riverside camps and homes before daybreak Friday, pulling sleeping people out of their cabins, tents and trailers and dragging them for miles past floating tree trunks and automobiles. Some survivors were found clinging to trees.
Piles of twisted trees sprinkled with mattresses, refrigerators, coolers and canoes now litter the riverbanks.
Search-and-rescue teams used heavy equipment near Kerrville to remove large branches while volunteers covered in mud sorted through chunks of debris, piece by piece.
Camp Mystic girls sang multiple Christian songs and hymns to stay calm as they were evacuated the central Texas flooding
Eloise Peck (right) was sharing a cabin with Lila Bonner (left) when they were killed in the flooding
People look through items left in the bunks at Camp Mystic
It is unclear how many people remain missiong across Central Texas, but there are fears that the weather could continue to worsen into Monday night.
The National Weather Service is predicting two to three inches of rain to fall per hour, with even more in some regions.
These areas are already soaked through from the heavy deluge of the weekend and any more rain will likely cause rapid flash flooding.
