A woman who was rescued by her neighbor during the deadly flash flooding in Texas told CNN some alerts came through to her phone, but waters rose rapidly in the dark of night, which made it difficult to react.
Leigh-Anne Aiken whose home was located along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, said the only flood alert she noticed was from 1:40 a.m.
“To be honest, this was in the hours that I was asleep and there have been so frequent these different types of flood warnings, that I didn’t really register that,” Aiken told CNN’s John Vause.
“I couldn’t tell you honestly if it was a warning or a watch.”
Meanwhile, the water was rising while everybody was asleep, she said.
“It was pitch dark. The power was out. We’re in the water. If I hadn’t already been living on the property for some time … and been familiar with it. I would have been swept away because I wouldn’t know which way to go,” she said.
Aiken said she kept hearing loud noises from the storm and when she put her feet on the ground around 5 a.m., she was already in ankle deep in water.
She quickly called her neighbor and told him water had entered her cabin.
“And he came right away. By the time he got to me, which wasn’t long, and I had grabbed one of my dogs and he grabbed my larger dog, the water was already rising up to our knees, probably, when we walked out of my cabin and went up to his (cabin), which was higher ground. But within 15 minutes from my cabin into his and with the dogs elevated the the water was from the ankle to the waist.”
