Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central Texas over the holiday weekend.

He looked at me and the kids and my mother-in-law and said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m not going to make it. I love you all,” Julian Ryan’s fiancée, Christinia Wilson, recalled.

Julian Ryan’s final words to his mother, as floodwaters quickly engulfed their trailer home, were simply, “I love you.”