According to a GoFundMe post shared by their aunt Jennifer Harber, the water began rushing in around 3:30 a.m., jolting the girls’ father, RJ Harber, awake. The rain was pounding so hard, Jennifer said, that it was nearly impossible to hear the floodwaters bursting through the door of their cabin.

At the same time, Brooke sent a final text to her dad and grandparents: “I love you.”

RJ and his wife, Annie, sprang into action. The couple shattered a window to escape their cabin, desperate to reach their daughters who were sleeping in a nearby cabin with their grandparents, Mike and Charlene Harber.

But the floodwaters were merciless.

RJ and Annie ran to a neighbor’s home, banged on the door, and borrowed a kayak in a