Among the dead are 27 campers and counsellors from Camp Mystic, the Christian all-girls summer camp located on the banks of the Guadalupe River.
Many friends, family members and loved ones have since come forward to open up about their monumental losses, with a pair of grieving parents now sharing the devastating final text from their 21-year-old daughter before she was tragically taken away by the flash floods.

The body of Joyce Catherine Badon, who sent the final text message to her family before she was washed away, has now been found.

According to a leader of a search team, the woman in question, Joyce was staying with college friends when the flood struck in Hunt, Texas, and became trapped at a house along the Guadalupe River.

On Monday (July 7), Joyce’s father, Ty, told NBC News that she had been found dead with her