A young woman clung to a tree for four hours awaiting rescue after she was swept 20 miles downstream during flash flooding in Texas. The 22-year-old was dragged from a car at a campsite in Kerr County, Texas, around 4 a.m. on Friday as she and her parents, sister, aunt, and uncle attempted to flee the oncoming flood. She was rescued around 8 a.m. after traveling miles in the water, going over four dams and jostling with fridges, cars, and other debris. She was discovered after a resident heard her cries for help from a Cyprus tree and alerted rescuers. By the time help reached the stranded woman, she was clinging to a branch 12 feet above the rushing water and had to drop herself into the rescue boat waiting below. It is not clear what happened to the rest of her family, who were also swept from their car by the water on Friday morning. At least 50 people have died and dozens more are missing after sudden rainfall dumped over 10 inches of rain in Kerr County, causing the Guadalupe River to flood. Many of those missing are young girls who were attending Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River.
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