Brother, sister duo Margaret Setzer and Ted Sloan were born and raised in the hills of Notts County.
But they're not just siblings, they're also neighbors.
And when catastrophic flooding hit the region last year, there are close proximity just might have saved their lives.
I have went over to his house and Toby, I hollered at in the water for giving up, and then by the time he got dressed and came out, he was it was upon my second step or something.
I looked up to this way and I've seen her own stand, an inner window.
And the water was already almost over her porch.
And I told her I said, You've got to get out of here.
And she said, I'm scared.
I think you need to be scared.
You're going to drown if we don't get out of here.
So he come to the steps and he up her bare statue and down to the ground.
And like I said, the water was up there, away and probably higher on her.
And the I told her, now say when we start to off the guardrail, we walk down downward.
All the water would push if we tried and went straight across it and probably knocked it down.
And that probably saved us.
When we went up there to the shop.
And then I said I got her far.
After that, I go down and see if I can get her vehicle down.
So I took a chance on getting back in the house to get her keys to her vehicle and my truck.
Well, I went in there and looked around quick if I could, and I never could find.
Probably stayed 5 minutes of looking and the water was already coming in the back door.
And I said, I've got to get out of here.
Then I hear busted forward cracking and pretty good.
Our dirt had no power.
Water up to my knee kept arrived in real where I was alone in that house.
Know the water reaching in.
That's my turn and that's his.
And this is some of the junk and stuff that come off returned.
You can see how the mud in up here.
Sure we stayed.
And we lived in that woodshop from July 28 to December when we first went up here we slept on a I slept on a bank and he slept in swaying.
Oh, the first night I slept on the bench right here.
Jody.
And that's where Margaret lay up and the door was locked.
She kept it locked all the time.
And we go in and out.
That and in the rain.
We'd have to cut the flour About twice that overnight.
He'd take by the wheelbarrow, Wouldn't even go.
We made it out alive and lost the.
But we, you know, we are alive.
It's the main thing.
I'm just thankful that I did get it over this.
And I just hope and pray my brother gets something so he can rebuild.
And that was to me.
Ted has lived in his childhood home for almost 60 years, and he told us he's determined to rebuild it.
One of the remaining needs in the region is builders who can help repair homes that still have damage.