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In a truly astonishing turn of events, three of the 27 girls who vanished after the devastating Texas flood were discovered alive Sunday afternoon—huddled together inside the hollow trunk of a giant oak tree, nearly a mile from the wreckage of Camp Wrenwood.
Rescuers believe they spent almost ten days in that makeshift refuge, surviving solely on rainwater and sheer willpower.A volunteer hiker, unaware anyone might be in the area, heard a faint sound at the base of a fallen tree. At first she assumed it was an animal, but soon recognized a child’s trembling voice pleading,
“We’re here… please don’t leave.” Within minutes, emergency teams pried open the partially hollowed trunk to reveal Emily Rivera, Zoey Nash, and Hope Lin—aged eight to ten—clinging to one another, wrapped in damp towels and using a broken shoelace to hold a flap of bark as a door.Medical personnel called their rescue nothing short of miraculous. The girls had no food or fire and bore only minor injuries: scrapes, insect bites, and early signs of dehydration.
Yet they remained calm, crediting two vital factors for their survival. First, they fashioned plastic wrappers from lunch kits into a V-shaped funnel to collect rainwater, then drank by wringing moisture from leaves and their own shirts. Second, a wilderness shelter drill conducted just days before the flood taught them to stay dry, stay together, and stay quiet—lessons they repeated to themselves until help arrived.
When asked how they kept hope alive, the girls whispered that talking about their mothers brought them comfort. “We thought no one was coming,” Emily said, “but we believed in each other.” Across the nation, their story has inspired tears and cheers: church bells rang in small towns, and social media .
