Jeeper Ragsdale’s sister, Jane, woke him up with a call at about 3:30 a.m. on July 4, telling him the water was already rising. “And I couldn’t do nothing,” Jeeper told ABC News. “I was, like, get out of the house.” That was the last time Jeeper spoke to Jane, whose full name was Cynthia Jane Ragsdale, and who was one of more than 100 people who died in the Texas flooding that began early that morning. Read more:

Jeeper Ragsdale’s sister, Jane, woke him up with a call at about 3:30 a.m. on July 4, telling him the water was rising.

It was already at the foot of her bed, Jane told him, he said. The cell service was spotty at the camp where Jane was a director, but Jeeper could hear that much, he said.

“And I couldn’t do nothing,” Jeeper told ABC News. “I was, like, get out of the house.”

She had been with the camp, Heart O’ The Hills, for almost 50 years. She’d been a co-owner since 1978 and had served as the director since 1988.

As her brother recalled, the camp in the Texas Hill Country was “my sister’s love of her live.” It was in her blood.

Jane’s camp was near another, Camp