Texas flood survivors captured their terrifying ordeal in photos and video

Jane Towler is late in a small cabin GUADALUPE River Thunder explodes with Thrashing Rain. At 4 o’clock and the water accumulated on the ground. Suddenly, the phone rang. He was a friend of a nearby cabin.

“Jane, we F – Ed!” Brian Keeper said crazy. “Water in my house! Go out!”

Towler’s grandfather bought the property in Texas Hill Country in the 1930s and he lived for many floods In 70, here and there is losing a canoe or chair. But last Friday was different.

The river swells 26 feet (about 8 meters) in 45 minutes and Leave waste to houses And sweep buildings, cars and trucks and claim their lives More than 100 peopleto contain Many summer campers.

Towler did not know How bad things are thingsBut the fear of the goalkeeper threw him into the flight mode.

The shoes rushed to the nearby house where his son Alden Towler and his family-friend Shabd Simon-Alexander Simon-Alexander began to walk with his son Alden Towler and his family.

Realizing that the situation is worsening

When his son Simon-Alexander woke up to his desperate screams, the water was already deep.

“Who are we talking about? We must tell someone,

Yüz Everything in our garden swim, Jane Jane Towler said, while the video is pulling the rising muddy water in the kitchen. Simon-Alexander’s daughter was silent, tied to her mother’s chest.

“Okay, I want us to be ready to go to the roof,” Jane Towler said.

Alden Towler was busy stacking things in a bed in another room to keep dry. However, Simon-Alexander drew attention to the void.

“When your mother came here, there was no water on the ground,” he said.

The water is now on its knees and still only in underwear, Alden Towler changed priorities and bought a bottle of water and peanuts.

What if we go hill? “he asked.

“We can’t go out!

While the refrigerator was overturned with a leap, the contraction options crystallized.

“What are we going to do to be safe? Go to the roof?” Jane Towler asked.

“I think we’re going to the roof,” his son replied.

Climbing into darkness

Simon-Alexander comforted her daughter. Five days ago, they celebrated her first birthday with pancakes, balloons and canoeing.

Now, with Simon-Alexander baby, the water stopped to the thighs. When we looked back, he said at that point that they were either sure where they were or drowning between the ceiling. But in the video, he calmed his daughter in a gentle voice and said to him, “Yes, too much. Too much baby.”

Then dark.

“My god!” Shabdu said.

Did the electricity come out? Jane said. “This is good.” No electricity.

At 4: 16 and the furniture swim, Jane Towler called 911 over the kitchen counter.

“You have to help us,” Simon-Alexander begged the speaker. “We will die.”

The distributor, calm and kind, could not promise to save soon, but he called on them to go as far away from water and survive. Then they pulled themselves to the loft.

Along the cover, they watched the water in the kitchen below. Then they heard that the plates and glasses were frightening as they revolved around the cupboards and approached the ceiling.

See the destruction

The Alden found a ventilation on the roof, punched it, and finally climbed. The water licked the roof line. Screams, people called each other throughout the valley pierced the thunder. Car horns uninterrupted and vehicles, lightning by lightning swim. The river smelled.

He gathered on the roof and sang to his daughter Simon-Alexander. It was a song called “La Caña ğı, where she was sung from pregnancy from Mexico.

There was an explosion and then a drawn shredding noise passing through cacophony. The house trembled.

The house of his neighbors, who was the buoy of the swollen river, seemed to be shredded into the cabin in which Jane Towler stayed and ruptured from the foundation. Later, a tree hit the house they stopped and before stopping.

Alden thought of their loved ones-eight-year-old girlfriend, father-like passing through the last prayers.

Simon-Alexander said another melody.

They were preparing to spend days on the roof, to protect the waters, peanuts and the battery of the flashlight, often changing to control the river level.

10 centimeters had fallen 4 inches. Then a foot (30 centimeters).

Safety

The sun began to be born at 6:30 and illuminated the transformative world around them. They shouted at the cars on the way to the hill, and eventually they helped the roof and were deported to a church, and others were gathering.

“This is where the real horror begins,” he said, alden Towler, who was certified as a wild first intervention.

With medical training – Jane Towler is a retired labor and delivery nurse – they helped the two doctors tend to the wounded.

Alden Tower helped a 5 -year -old child who was open to Shin.

“We spent the night on a tree!” He remembers what the child says.

The child’s 3 -year -old sister was still missing. His father, two of them were grandmother and grandfather and aunt. The aunt came after hours, after hitting the tree he stuck, he kidnapped his fingertips.

For Towlers and Simon-Alexander, the scene was a mixture of fear and generosity. A man asked Alden Towler if he had a wallet, and the man gave him $ 300.

Five days later, when Alden Towler’s voice described it as an ız an unstoppable impulse to help people ”in the community, he still cracked with emotions.