A Savannah College of Art and Design student died when floodwaters swept her and three friends away during their July 4th weekend trip to Hunt, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What Happened:<\/strong> Joyce Badon, 21, was staying with friends at a riverside home when flash floods hit early Friday morning. The Search:<\/strong> Her father discovered another flood victim while looking for his daughter among the wreckage. Why It Matters:<\/strong> Families across Texas continue searching for missing loved ones as the death toll from weekend flooding climbs past 115 people, with more than 160 still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Piecing It Together:<\/strong> The group couldn’t reach safety when waters rose faster than expected at their hillside location near the Guadalupe River. A Savannah College of Art and Design student died when floodwaters swept her and three friends away during their July 4th weekend trip to Hunt, Texas. What Happened: Joyce Badon, 21, was staying with friends at a riverside home when flash floods hit early Friday morning.\u2022 The architecture senior from Beaumont managed to call the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":225222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[18418,18454,9192,18417],"class_list":["post-225221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-people","tag-camp-mystic","tag-joyce-badon","tag-texas","tag-texas-flood","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 The architecture senior from Beaumont managed to call the property owner before losing contact
\u2022 Her parents found her body Monday after three days of searching through debris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 The family used social media to coordinate search efforts and ask for community prayers
\u2022 SCAD officials say they’re providing grief counseling for students affected by the loss<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Their cars washed away in the initial surge
\u2022 The house’s attic became unreachable as floodwaters climbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"