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   home where he lived with his mom and children.   
      
   “He died a hero for trying to save his family,” Salas said.   
      
   Salas said her home was so full of water, she was floating on top   
   of her bed and had to punch a hole in the roof to escape.   
      
   'We thought they were gone'   
   At Calvary Temple Church in Kerrville — which Texas DPS officials   
   and representatives of the Salvation Army and Red Cross were   
   staging area — San Antonio residents Dawn and Scott Moore sat at a   
   foldout table with Tammy and Paul Paynter, waiting for news on   
   their sons.   
      
   Carson Moore, 21, and Michael Paynter, 20 are childhood best   
   friends and college students who were spending the holiday weekend   
   at the Moores’ home along the Guadalupe River in Hunt.   
      
   Tammy Paynter said her son called her in a panic at 3:45 a.m. The   
   men had been awakened by the sound of windows shattering as   
   floodwaters began pouring into the home. They climbed out a   
   bathroom window onto the roof of the house.   
      
   The phone cut out at about 4:15 a.m., Tammy Paynter said.   
      
   An hour later, a neighbor told the Moores that their house and   
   several others in the neighborhood were destroyed. They feared the   
   worst for their son and his friend.   
      
   “We thought they were gone,” Dawn Moore said.   
      
   About an hour later, a shop owner called her and said Carson was   
   clinging to a tree about two miles from the home. The shop owner   
   saw Carson and shouted out to him, and the man pleaded with the   
   owner to call his parents. He shouted their phone number from the   
   tree, Dawn Moore said.   
      
   Michael Paynter was also rescued from a tree, his parents said.   
   Both men were taken to a rescue triage facility nearby.   
      
   While the Paynters were waiting to reunite with their son at the   
   church, a doctor called to tell them Michael was injured but stable.   
      
   “It’ll be more of a relief when I can hug him, see him and not let   
   him go,” Tammy Paynter said.   
      
   Flooding in Kendall County   
   Significant flooding also struck in northern and western Kendall   
   County, including in Comfort.   
      
   The Boerne Fire Department deployed rescue teams to assist   
   residents in the Comfort area, according to city spokesman Chris   
   Shadrock.   
      
   Kevin Klaerner, spokesman for the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office,   
   said crews rescued one man who was stuck in a tree. He said   
   everyone who needed to evacuate has done so.   
      
   County officials opened a shelter at Comfort High School for people   
   displaced by the flooding. In early afternoon, there were about 36   
   first-responders at the shelter and fewer than 20 evacuees.  The   
   evacuees included a woman wearing scrubs accompanied by three   
   children, a man accompanied by three children and eight other   
   adults.   
      
   Officials set up a PB&J sandwich station in the atrium outside the   
   school’s gymnasium, along with coffee, chips and cookies at the   
   concession stand. Some area residents brought by a pizza and others   
   dropped off homemade sandwiches.   
      
   Tony Bernal, 91, and his wife Hope Bernal, 71, evacuated to the   
   shelter from their home in Comfort, which is about a block from   
   Cypress Creek.   
      
   They said they’ve lived through four other floods since they moved   
   to Comfort from San Antonio 23 years ago, and they brought their   
   medication, water, a comb and some magazines to the shelter.   
      
   “It had been raining all night and (her husband) said we’d better   
   think about evacuating. We started putting things in bags, and went   
   to church to drop off some clothes so they didn’t get messed up,”   
   Hope said.   
      
   A neighbor came over to check on them at the request of their son,   
   who had been unable to reach them and was concerned.   
      
   “We got up in the morning and I told her, ‘We’d better put some   
   clothes on because we might have to leave,’” said Tony, who was   
   killing time at the shelter working on the word games and Sudoku   
   puzzle in the San Antonio Express-News.   
      
   This is a developing story. Please check for updates.   
      
   https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2025/07/04/death-toll-climbs-   
   to-24-in-hill-country-search-and-rescue-continue/84470695007/   
      
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