On another holiday weekend a decade ago, McComb and his family were vacationing in Wimberley when torrential rain forced the Blanco River to swell, carrying the home they were in downstream. McComb made it to shore, but his wife and children didn't survive. He said his daughter, Leighton, was never found.

A search for Texas flood survivors intensified as Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for nearly two dozen Texas counties.

Local officials warned the number of dead will likely rise and were due to give an update on Sunday morning, as search and rescue teams raced to find 27 girls missing from a camp near the Guadalupe River,