A camera caught the last moments of two grandparents in North Carolina just before their house fell apart in the hurricane’s floods.
The grandparents were photographed on the roof of their house, looking around as floods rushed by. The muddy water was only a few inches away.
Their daughter, Jessica Drye Turner, put the pictures on Facebook on September 27 along with a plea for help. They called 911 and said they were “not the only ones in need of a rescue.” In the end, emergency workers couldn’t get there fast enough, and the house fell into the floods.
Turner’s parents and Micah, their grandson, drowned in the water. Turner’s sister Megan, Micah’s mother, was also washed away by the floodwater, but she made it out safely.
“I cannot convey in words the sorrow, heartbreak and devastation my sisters and I are going through nor imagine the pain before us,” Turner wrote on the site. “Please lift my sister who lost her son up in prayers and my other sister and myself as we come together to somehow comfort her and get through each moment banded together.”
Turner said that she and a third sister, Heather, went to Asheville even though there were travel warnings to get Megan.
Megan has a long way to go. He wrote on Facebook, “One that will also be hard for Heather and me, but we are just taking it one day at a time.”
After Megan’s son died, his family set up a GoFundMe page to help her. It has already raised more than $10,000 of the $120,000 goal.