The flash flooding in Texas that killed at least 43 people in one county alone was so fierce, it sent an entire house barreling down the Guadalupe River and crashing into a bridge, wild video shows.
The home — apparently with a cat trapped inside — careened into a metal railing on Center Point Bridge by ferocious currents known as a flood wave.
“Oh, there’s a cat in there,” Gavin Walston, who recorded the video, said as the beige house slams into the bridge around 7:40 a.m. Friday with a tremendous crash, partially uprooting a tree in the process.
“Hold on, little buddy,” the witness said.
Walston began shooting the 37-minute video along state highway 480, or Old San Antonio Road, just as the flood wave — which occurs when there is a rapid rise of water — came rushing downstream.
The video shows the river quickly swelling and picking up speed — in a stunning display of nature’s raw power. Debris, including tree branches and garbage, begins to quickly pile up beneath the bridge, as the water climbs higher, sucking trees into its depths.
At one point, Walston narrowly avoids getting crushed by a tree that is felled by the deluge.
“You alright?” another spectator asked.
The camera replies in the affirmative.
“That was close, huh?” he said.
The bridge is located about 30 miles east of Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian camp that was housing 750 people when the floodwaters swept through early Friday morning. At least five campers there died and 22 are missing.
More than 40 people in Kerr County alone are dead.
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