The waves swept him for 20 kilometers and stayed with a tree for several hours before being miraculously rescued. Devyn Smith, a 22 -year -old girl, was saved by a father and her son while asking for help, refugee at the top of a tree in the middle of the devastating waters who have flooded Texas since this weekend.
“I heard shouts”
“I arrived at my balcony and heard shouts,” said BFMTV Carl Throw for BFMTV, one of the saviors of the young woman. “I did not understand and finally I saw it, there, on the other side of the river in the tree,” he shows.
With their son, they ask for help. Meanwhile, the two men tirelessly encourage the young woman to endure. Slightly injured, with part of her clothes carried by the waves, Devyn Smith will finally be saved by emergency services.
“At that time, we don’t realize what is happening,” said Carl’s son, Josh, crying in his eyes. “But there, I realize the disaster. I think of life and my 6 -year -old son.”
More than 100 dead in Texas
The young woman is this Tuesday, July 8, still hospitalized. “The doctors said it was as if I had run 15 kilometers every day, for a month. He survived the impossible,” Carl reports to launch.
A miraculous rescue while the evaluation of these floods continues to increase: local authorities reported on Monday, July 7, more than 100 dead. Kerr’s only county, the most affected, has 84 victims, including 28 children.
Among the victims is Devyn Smith’s father. The American learned his death on Tuesday, while his sister and three other family members are still missing like many other Texans.
Believing that the floods were “a disaster as we have not seen in 100 years,” Donald Trump signed a disaster statement during the weekend to provide Texas with federal government media. The US president plans to go there on Friday.
Source: BFM TV
