Texas flood survivors Doug Fuller and his wife, Libby Evans-Fuller, described being swept from their home in Friday’s furious floodwaters.
They told NBC’s “TODAY” show this morning that were asleep in their beds when Fuller woke up due to the rain and saw a stranded motorist riding out the storm.
“We started seeing water come to the middle of the parking lot. I went inside to let her know what was going on, and when I looked back, basically our car started floating away. And that quickly, before she could even get fully dressed, water started coming in through the door. And it rose so high that we got on our mattress, we were able to touch the ceiling,” Fuller recalled.
“It was 5 feet of water in less than five minutes inside the house,” Libby Evans-Fuller added.
Doug said in those hard moments he was thinking of his wife: “I don’t want to lose her, and if I lose her, then I might as well go too.”
As floods inundated their home, the couple hung onto their door frame as long as they could.
“Eventually we got a big surge, and it sucked us out,” Fuller said. They found a support post in front of the house that they hung on to alongside neighbors.
“We hung on for about the next hour and a half maybe. We were at the roofline, that’s how high the water got, and we watched buildings disintegrate, cars floating by. I really thought that might be the end, and by some miracle, the water receded,” Fuller said.
Finally, they were able to get their feet on the ground. Even after surviving the terrifying floods, Evans-Fuller showed up to a double shift at the restaurant she works at Saturday to help feed first responders.
“I got to thank them, because it meant a lot to me that they were out there because it could have been us,” she explained.
