Angel Campbell should have been looking through photo albums and eating soup beans in her grandmother's living room this week
Angel Campbell, 37, left, embraces her mother Patricia Collins, 58, right, on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, in Chavies, Ky. Collins was badly injured in massive flooding. Campbell says they lost her grandmother in the same house as Collins. Campbell says that her mother and grandmother were both standing on a table as the water swept them both away. Collins survived with injuries while her mother Nellie Mae Howard, died in the flood. CHAVIES, Ky.
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.”
What’s left of their home came to rest on the opposite side of their normally placid creek. A neighbor has lent him a pop-up camper to live in, once he's ready. “They had four and five cars in their driveway. Money. Yards kept clean. They were living good, and God let them know who’s the boss,” Bates said.“We may not have all the shopping centers, we may not have all these big jobs and factories and everything else, but what we lack with money, you know we’re rich in friendship and family,” Dollarhide said. “That’s what’s important.”
Collins was in the water for two hours, pinned between a couch and a car. The only thing that saved her was a flashing tail light that caught the eye of her neighbors, who pulled her to safety. Battered and bruised, she never saw Howard alive again. 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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