A flood survivor was forced to climb to the top of a hill and scream for help as rising water flooded her home.
Brianna Imhoff had to fire a gun in the air for emergency services to rescue her, along with her husband, dogs and an elderly neighbor during the crash. heavy downpour in Kentucky.
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“I’m just really thankful that I’m still alive,” she told The Sun. “It’s very hard to start over, but I’m glad we still have our lives in our hands.”
Imhoff said she was awakened around 5 a.m. to the sound of water pounding on her house.
When she looked out, the yard was “completely submerged” in the rapidly rising water.
Imhoff and her husband, Austin, then waded to their neighbor’s house with their two dogs in tow.
“You couldn’t see anything but the roof,” Imhoff recalls.
Imhoff and her husband had only been living in their rented house for a month, but the couple worked in a local nursing home and had gotten to know their neighbor by looking after his grandmother.
Although he was not home at the time, his aunt let them in.
Imhoff said they were eventually forced to go up when the water started to rise.
At seven in the morning they felt they had to get out, so they walked up a hill behind the house.
“Had we stayed in the house, we wouldn’t have been able to get help because we had no service,” Imhoff told The Sun.
“We just grabbed a few bottles of water and then half a bag of crisps, whatever Austin could see in the kitchen of their house.”
“The dogs were a little scared, so they acted like crazy, so we had to walk, hold them so they wouldn’t get in the water, and walk up the hill.”
“I was just so scared,” she added. “I don’t like the water anyway and I felt trapped.”
I don’t like the water anyway and I felt trapped.
Brianna Imhoff
“I didn’t know if people would come so quickly,” Imhoff continued. “I expected it to be the next day. I thought we would have to walk higher in the hills.
“I just didn’t think the water would stop rising.
“I was literally praying that someone would come out and find us.”
Imhoff tried to post where they were facebook – but the service wouldn’t allow it.
It wasn’t until 10:30 AM that they heard a rescue helicopter.
“My husband went there to the end of the hill and took off his shirt and started waving around and we all started screaming and the woman we were with had a gun, so I shot the gun in the air, and they saw U.S .”
They were rescued by the local fire department, as well as what Imhoff said was the state rescue team.
They were taken to the busier town of Jackson and given a volunteer ride to see Imhoff’s mother, whose trailer was also under water.
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Imhoff and her husband stay at the home of a local pastor as they figure out where to go after losing everything in the deluge.
The couple would both start a nursing program, which they may have to abort because they aren’t sure where to stay.
“My mom’s trailer doesn’t look good. ‘ said Imhoff. “I’m sure hers will be flooded. I think Austin’s mom [home] flooded, so it’s just everyone.”
Imhoff’s terrifying experience comes as… cities were completely submerged in water with families waiting on their rooftops to be rescued.
The National Guard is called in after what has been described as one of the worst floods in Kentucky history.
Over 6 inches of rain fell in the area last night, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses.
“For so many of our residents, we are currently experiencing one of the worst, most devastating floods in Kentucky history,” Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, said this morning.
“What we’re going to see from this is massive property damage, we expect the loss of life, hundreds will lose their homes, and this is going to be another event that will take not months, but probably years for many families to rebuild and recover from. to recover.”
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