India, July 7 -- The devastating Texas floods have claimed 82 lives so far, with several others remaining unaccounted for. Full-fledged families, who were on camping trips for the July 4 weekend in the Hill Country, have been upended.

Among the dead were two sisters from Dallas, whose bodies were found together with their 'hands locked' to each other.

Thirteen-year-old Blair Herber and 11-year-old Brooke Harber went on a camping trip with the whole family alongside the Guadalupe River. According to their school, they were studying in their cabin in the gated community of Casa Bonita in Hunt when flood water swept them away, the Associated Press reported. While both their parents are safe, their grandparents remain missing.

Both sisters...