Angel Campbell should have been looking through photo albums and eating soup beans in her grandmother's living room this week.
August 5, 2022, 12:13 PMTrees fell down the hill onto a power line after massive flooding on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, in Lost Creek, Ky. – Angel Campbell should have been sitting in her usual chair in her grandmother’s living room this week, looking through her old photo albums and eating her favorite soup beans.A week after 82-year-old Nellie Mae Howard died in the devastating floods thatin eastern Kentucky, Campbell can't stop thinking about how she was swept away.
Watson said his training taught him how to compose himself, but in such an extreme situation, he wondered: “How do you properly compose yourself when you see a multitude of people passing away and there being attempts to save their life or to keep them together? It’s troubling, but we have to go through this. We have to overcome it. We can always hold their memory in our heart.”
“I can’t bring back what I had,” Vick said. “I’m just going to have to get up and go on. I’ll make it.” Campbell’s mother, Patricia Collins, was at home with her boyfriend next door to Howard's home in Chavies, Kentucky, when the storms hit. Collins went to check on her, and climbed with her grandmother onto the kitchen table, but it collapsed into the surging water.
Both homes are now in ruins, carried in pieces hundreds of feet from where Howard had lived for half a century.Campbell said her grandmother was like her second mother. They either saw each other or spoke on the phone every day. She can still hear her giggling on the other line, or telling her to remember to thank Jesus for all the good in her life. She was a deeply religious woman who tended to her rose garden and thanked the Lord each morning for letting her see another day.
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