Jeeper Ragsdale’s sibling, Jane, woke him up with a telephone call at concerning 3:30 a.m. on July 4, informing him the water was currently increasing.
It was currently at the foot of her bed, Jane informed him, he stated. The cell solution was erratic at the camp where Jane was a supervisor, however Jeeper can listen to that a lot, he stated.
” And I could not not do anything,” Jeeper informed ABC Information. “I was, like, leave your home.”
That was the last time Jeeper spoke with Jane, whose complete name was Cynthia Jane Ragsdale, and that was just one of greater than 100 individuals that passed away in the Texas flooding that started early that early morning.
Flooding sufferer, Jane Ragsdale.
Heart O’ the Hills Camp for Girls
She had actually been with the camp, Heart O’ The Hills, for virtually half a century. She would certainly been a co-owner considering that 1978 and had actually acted as the supervisor considering that 1988.
As her bro remembered, the camp in the Texas Hillside Nation was “my sibling’s love of her online.” It remained in her blood.
Jane’s camp was near an additional, Camp Mystic, which was additionally ruined by the flooding.
When Jane phoned call to inform Jeeper what was occurring, he informed her to damage a home window, to leave your home whatsoever essential, he stated in a meeting. He stated he believed she had actually done so, however he could not make sure.
” Well, she simply had not been calling me once again,” Jeeper stated. “So it was quite noticeable, possibly, what had actually occurred. Yet I simply was hanging on to wish that in some way she had actually ventured out.”
Jeeper Ragsdale, that shed his sibling, Cynthia Jane Ragsdale, in the Texas Hillside Nation flooding, talks to ABC Information, July 9, 2025.
ABC Information
Jeeper stated his sibling’s telephone call that early morning notified him to the threat and he had the ability to awaken a number of individuals at his very own camp. He attributed her call with conserving at the very least 5 lives.
In the days considering that the flooding, Jeeper has actually had time to assess his sibling’s life. She had actually functioned as a reporter in her young people, taking a trip as far as Argentina for job. She had actually been among the “best individuals you can satisfy and liked aiding individuals and had not been materialistic.”
He stated he would certainly remember her the method he constantly did, equally as a pleased individual that would certainly welcome him with a huge hug whenever they saw each various other.
The most awful component concerning Friday was the hours that he really did not recognize where she was. Not understanding if she was alright, he stated. It suggested whatever to him that she would certainly called him that early morning, he stated.
And he stated she would certainly texted him eventually that early morning, as the floodings ruined the location. In one message she stated she was stressed over re-opening the camp, Jeeper stated, however he still hasn’t recalled at her last messages to him.
” I have not had the ability to take a look at my messages,” he stated. I simply have not had the ability to return there. Yet I recognize I spoke to her.”
