Here’s what she told HuffPost reporter Julia Craven of the ordeal:We were in our living room looking at how it was outside through our window. We started getting the flood warning alerts, and noticed that the water outside quickly started rising higher than it usually does. My parents rushed to the garage to try to go find things that could help stop water from coming in. We started taking mattresses inside my little brothers room, which was the only room that hadn’t flooded yet, as fast as we could. We kept looking through the window, hoping it would get better but we’d see the opposite: more rain, more water rising.

Source: Huffington Post August 30, 2017 21:33 UTC