Why devastation struck Texas's 'flash flood alley'

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  It was early Friday morning when the water started rising in Kerr County, Texas.

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  I got a call at 4 a.m. and somehow it woke me up and I answered it.

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  And it was my son calling to let me know that there was four inches of water in the house.

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  And I told him to get to the highway as fast as he could.

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  This is Thad Hartfield.

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  He was about 300 miles away from their vacation house by the Guadalupe River,

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  where his 22-year-old son Aiden was calling him from.

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  Aiden was staying there for the July 4th weekend with his girlfriend and some other of his friends.

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  And as they proceeded out of the house, the water,

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  and I'm talking about maybe a minute, the water went from four inches to four feet.

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  They were hanging on to some structures on the outside of the house when a massive cypress tree came and actually hit the part of the house where they were gathered.

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  And Aiden's phone was in the hands of a girl named Joyce.

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  And Joyce told me that Aiden and the other two girls had been swept off and got hit by something within seconds.

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  And the phone went dead.

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  And so I immediately made my way here to start my search.

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  Thad's been on the ground looking for his son and his son's friends for days.

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  That's where he spoke to our colleague, reporter Arlise Hernandez.

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  How are you doing this, Thad?

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  Like I said, I have to do something for my son.

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  And my son called me.

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