In his last moments earlier than floodwaters overtook his camper in Kerrville, Texas, Jeff Ramsey left goodbye messages for his youngsters.
“My sister and I, we woke as much as the worst voicemail you might probably think about getting on a 4th of July morning,” Jake Ramsey informed ABC Information Dwell. “It is simply my dad telling us he loves us. … He just about mentioned, ‘I feel that is it.'”
Jake Ramsey’s dad, 61-year-old Jeff Ramsey, and his stepmom, 46-year-old Tanya Ramsey, each died within the floods, he mentioned.
Tanya and Jeff Ramsey are proven with their youngsters.
Jake Ramsey
Jeff Ramsey “was all the time looking for his household first,” his son mentioned. “He was simply all about serving to his neighborhood, serving to veterans. And he simply cherished his nation and cherished us greater than something. And so I could not have requested for a greater dad.”
In the course of the Friday morning chaos, because the water rose round him, Jeff Ramsey additionally made certain to make use of these final minutes to warn his household in regards to the impending hazard, his son mentioned.
Tanya Ramsey’s brother and mom have been staying in a cabin 100 yards away, and Jeff Ramsey’s name to them gave them sufficient time to flee, Jake Ramsey mentioned.
Tanya Ramsey’s brother then looked for the couple, however could not discover them.
Jeff Ramsey, 61 and Tanya Ramsey, 46
Jake Ramsey
Nonetheless, he did rescue the Ramseys’ pet, Chloe.
“We have been ecstatic to listen to that Chloe was nonetheless alive and to know that she was coming again residence,” Jake Ramsey mentioned.
“She’s simply such an enormous a part of my dad and Tanya’s coronary heart, so to have her again right here with us, it means the world to us,” he mentioned.
Friday morning’s catastrophic flooding has claimed the lives of at least 95 people in Kerr County, including 36 children, officers mentioned on Wednesday.
The county mentioned 161 folks stay lacking.
An American flag sits on a destroyed bridge over the Guadalupe River at Arcadia Loop and Bear Creek Highway after flooding in Kerrville, Texas, July 9, 2025.
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As questions swirl surrounding the timeline of who was notified in regards to the flooding when, and if extra might have been accomplished, Jake Ramsey mentioned, “I do know there might have been far more accomplished to stop this tragedy, and it simply sucks to see political division over the entire thing.”
“However I do trust, particularly with at this time’s administration, that we will get stuff accomplished and we will transfer ahead the precise manner sooner or later,” he mentioned.
