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[h=4]Homecoming queen swept away amid torrid Texas floods[/h]DEVINE, Texas — A Texas community is mourning the loss of a high school homecoming queen who was killed in this weekend's floods in San Antonio.
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A Texas community is mourning a high school homecoming queen who was killed when flood waters overtook her car. Alyssa Ramirez was just two miles from her home. VPC
Mementos left near where Alyssa Ramirez's car was swept away in floods in Devine, Texas, on Saturday, May 26, 2015. Alyssa, the homecoming queen, had just left her prom.(Photo: Screen grab from KENS-TV, San Antonio)
DEVINE, Texas — A Texas community is mourning the loss of a high school homecoming queen who was killed in this weekend's floods in San Antonio.
Alyssa Ramirez, a graduating senior, died in Devine on her way home from prom when her car was swept away.
On Sunday, loved ones left items including pieces of Alyssa's car, roses, and mementos of things she held dear — a tennis shirt and a makeshift cross at a memorial where her car was swept away.
"I don't doubt for a second that she's our guardian angel watching over us," said Alyssa Schmidt, one of Alyssa's best friends.
"She's just a very sweet, beautiful soul, just radiant," said one of her teachers, Monica Taylor.
Alyssa, a homecoming queen and star athlete at Devine High School, left her prom in San Antonio during Saturday night's rain.
Before leaving the prom she tweeted, "The fact that we may be stuck in SA overnight because rain is so sad(("
The fact that we may be stuck in SA overnight bc rain is so sad
— Alyssa Ramirez (@alyssar_14) May 24, 2015
She decided to take the drive anyway. She was about 2 miles from home when her car stalled in rising water on a section of FM 2200, which had not yet been blocked off.
In a flash, the water swept her away.
"We had all spent time with her, we were just getting ready that morning. I was shocked, I couldn't believe it," Schmidt said.
Her friends say they'll be there for the family, taking comfort in each other and the faith she held so dear.
"One of the things she recently said in her Sunday school is she wanted to love people better and love people more," Schmidt said. "I think that's the best way to honor her memory, is to love more."
Hudson Doty, 18, left, and Grant Guzal, 17, stand overlooking the Blanco River near the cement stilts of the Carey family home, far left, in Wimberley, Texas. The Careys have been missing since May 24 after their home was swept away by the Blanco River in a flash flood.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Rodolfo Gonzalez, Austin American-Statesman, via AP)
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