60-year-old Joleen Jarrel was returning from dropping off a friend at work when her car was swept away in the floodwaters, according to her husband.
Flash flooding in North Texas leads to high-water rescues, road closures and submerged cars
A state of disaster has been declared in Dallas County after a day of intense, deadly rainfall. High water rescues happened again and again as many parts of North Texas received record rainfall with vehicles being left stranded and people stuck in their homes.Vanessa Villas and her husband woke up early Monday morning to find their"I went to get off the bed and my feet were in water. It was ankle deep already by the time we woke up," Villas said.
Villas and her husband woke up her children and her husband's grandmother had to wade through the murky, moving water to get out. "The road on our street was already gone. We couldn't see it no more. We were just guiding off of mailboxes," Villas said.She says her house is a total loss and has no insurance, but Villas is thankful she did not lose more.
"My kids are okay. My husband, my husband's grandma's okay. What else can we ask for right? We made it out alive."
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