A man clinging to a tree on the Guadalupe River and screaming for a helicopter rescue. A father hustling his family into the attic to escape the rising waters. A Camp Mystic staffer pleading with a 911 operator to send help immediately.

Five months after catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people in a single hard-hit county in the Texas Hill Country, hundreds of 911 audio files released Friday give a new glimpse into the terror and panic that surrounded the July 4 floods.

Here are the stories of desperate victims of the catastrophic deluge in Kerr County:

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3:49 a.m.

Water was rising in a home near the river on Highway 39 when a dispatcher asked a terrified caller if he needed police, fire or emergency medical services to help him.

“I need everything sir,” the man said. “My

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