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MILLER: It’s, it’s very surreal, and, we’re going, ‘Did you get th--?!’--because the phones were jammed, you couldn’t get through to anyone--and we’re yelling, you know, ‘Did you get through to 9-1-1?! Are they coming?!‘ Um, do you, and the next question was, you know, ‘Do you have flood insurance? Do you have flood insurance?’ Of course, none of us did (laughs). So, uh, ‘cause you had to make light of it, it was just, it was, as I said, very surreal. And so, I guess about three o’clock, we noticed firemen starting to wade through the water out front. And, because I’m the resident manager, someone told them to come to me. So, they’re in the water, I’m in the upstairs window, and they said, “Are there any elderly people?” who live there. Well, River Plantation has a lot of elderly people, and there are one-stories and there are two-stories, and many of the elderly people live in the one-stories, you know for the stairs. And so, I said, ‘just go to all the one-stories.’ And you could hear them beatin’ down doors, um, because they didn’t know who was in there, who wasn’t.
And so, then, the firemen said, “OK, go to the back of the house, and there’ll be Search and Rescue.” So we went back to the back, we were...looking out the window, and about that time, he’s on top of the carport, because, the way they’re set up, there’s the condo, then there’s a patio, and then there was a carport. And he’s on top of the carport, he said, “how many?” We said, ‘two adults, two dogs.’ And he said, “meet me downstairs.” So we grabbed...our bag, ‘cause, you know, we’re thinking, ‘just what we needed,’ and we’re each carrying a dog, and we start downstairs, and he beats down our patio door. And so, we’re wading--there was four and a half feet of water--so, we’re wading through the water, and we each hand a dog, we hand our dogs to him, and he, um, places the dogs up on top of the carport. Well, it’s still pouring rain, and, of course--and the carport runs the length of the building--our dogs started going down, walking down to the end. So, you know, we’re trying to get them to come back, and so then he--I had just had shoulder surgery, so I had one good working arm--and so, he tries to grab me; he says, “step on top of the fence, or get up on the fence, and then I’ll lift you up on the carport.” Well, I said--he tried to use both arms--I’m like, ‘no way, I just had shoulder surgery, I’m not going through this again.’ And...about that time a chair floated out from the den, and so he said, “just step on that,” so I did, and he got me on top of the fence, and I got on top of the carport. And then my housemate--who is six ten, and weighs 250 pounds--he tried to pull him up--and (laughs) that was almost comical, because him being so big and this guy trying to pull him up--and finally he got up, and we gathered the dogs. And then, the boat is on the other side, and so then we had to climb down into the boat, and it’s still pouring rain, and...I guess there were about, you could get about five or six on the boat, and there were two of the children who live there and they’re on the boat with their dogs, and, so we get onto the boat. And then they had to drive the boat around--well, so many cars were submerged that he had to be careful, driving the boat, that he didn’t hit a car--and so we drove through the complex. And it was just unbelievable, it, it was just unbelievable, the whole place was, at this point, just a lake. And so they took us up to the street, Sawyer Brown Road, and there were several fire trucks there, and they took us off the boat... |
