AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Certain images define the weeks after deadly flooding in Central Texas. Debris scattered in flood waters. Bracelets worn in honor of summer camp victims. Images from happier times of girls, boys, men and women who died. And — a photo of a tie.

Michael Taaffe's tie. Burnt orange with 27 initials, it caught many people's eyes when the Longhorns safety wore it during SEC media days, just weeks after the Kerr County floods killed more than 100 people, including 27 children and camp director from Camp Mystic.

"I want them to know that their girls will be remembered for a long, long time," Taaffe said.

Taaffe and his mother Diane called a local shop in Westlake to create the tie to honor the lives of the children from Camp Mystic who are no longer with us. It became a very pe

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