ANDERSON COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — Flooding in Anderson County on Thursday prompts the rescue of a mother and child and causes several road closures.
Christina Crockett, a member of the Anderson County Emergency Management Office, stated that numerous roads still have water over them that has yet to recede. Crockett is urging residents to use caution, especially in low-lying areas.
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Slocum’s Swiftwater Rescue Team responded to a call off of CR 2202 in Palestine for a mother and 2-year-old daughter trapped on top of their vehicle.
KETK spoke with the mother who said she is grateful her and her daughter are alive.
“The water started exceeding in the car, going to pass my daughter’s neck, so I reached in the backseat and strapped her from the baby seat,” the mother, Laura Foster, said.
Foster said she was screaming for help, and they were brought to safety by Slocum’s Swiftwater Rescue Team. The rescue team responded to multiple people stranded in high water.
Circle 84 VFD said this amount of rain doesn’t happen often.
“Every couple years we do see a lot of rain and flooding, but to this extent is not very often,” fire captain, Brandon Stapleton said.
Dozens of roads across the county are littered with debris, flooded over or completely washed out that reveals massive damage underneath.
“I know they have a lot of roads closed, lots of trees down, people trapped in, roads washed out, the whole nine yards right now,” Stapleton said.
Foster and the child were checked out by EMS and are doing okay.
Fister urged people to turn around, don’t drown.
“Never chance it because that was definitely a life experience and situation and it was very scary for me,” Foster said.
List of closed roads include:
“We are trying to urge residents to please still use caution in the low-lying areas as we continue to have a chance of more rain through the weekend,” Crockett said.
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