“I Love You, Dad”: Texas Father’s Final Kayak Journey Ends in Tragedy During Deadly Floods
The Harber family was spending the holiday at a cabin they owned in the Casa Bonita cabin community near Hunt, Texas. Around 3:30 a.m. on Friday, July 4, RJ Harber was awakened by pounding rain, thunder and lightning. Hours earlier, he had received flash-flood warnings for other areas but not where he was staying.
At sunrise the water had finally receded enough for RJ to go back to the site. Only a half-dozen of the community’s 20-some cabins were still standing. The others had been ripped from their foundations, leaving only their tile floors. The cabin where Blair, Brooke and their grandparents had been staying was completely washed away.
Blair and Brooke’s bodies were found and identified about a dozen miles from the cabin. Their grandparents remain unaccounted for as of Sunday afternoon.
The Harbers have owned the cabin in Casa Bonita since 2020. The family often went there to kayak, fish and let their kids play. “Unfortunately,” RJ said, “all those great memories are now a bad memory.”
