WEBVTT 00:00.600 --> 00:01.866 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (upbeat music) 00:01.866 --> 00:03.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] This is a production of 00:03.033 --> 00:04.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% South Dakota Public Broadcasting. 00:10.666 --> 00:12.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Program funding is made possible 00:12.233 --> 00:13.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% with your membership 00:13.633 --> 00:15.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and with corporate support from 00:15.833 --> 00:20.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Casey Peterson, Financial Advisors and CPAs. 00:20.466 --> 00:21.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Helping organizations, 00:21.833 --> 00:22.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% businesses, 00:22.666 --> 00:23.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and individuals 00:23.833 --> 00:27.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% achieve their financial goals since 1977. 00:27.500 --> 00:29.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And by Rapid City attorney 00:29.033 --> 00:32.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Brian Hagg of Hagg & Hagg Law Firm 00:32.033 --> 00:34.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% who characterized the flood this way. 00:34.666 --> 00:37.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "Out of tragedy came a strong resolve 00:37.033 --> 00:39.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to rebuild a better Rapid City. 00:39.833 --> 00:41.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% This is our legacy. 00:41.866 --> 00:45.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Support for SDPB Documentaries is also provided by 00:45.566 --> 00:47.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the Leo P. Flynn Estate, 00:47.900 --> 00:50.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Kitty Kinsman and Steve Zellmer 00:50.233 --> 00:52.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and by Charles and Kay Riter. 01:01.200 --> 01:02.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Robb] The Rapid City mayor, 01:02.466 --> 01:04.766 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% Don Barnett said a few minutes ago, 01:04.766 --> 01:07.200 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% that's been about 10:40 PM 01:07.200 --> 01:08.500 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% that any citizens living 01:08.500 --> 01:10.466 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% on property abutting Rapid Creek 01:10.466 --> 01:11.800 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% should leave immediately. 01:11.800 --> 01:13.066 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% He said all of those properties 01:13.066 --> 01:15.033 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% throughout the city should be abandoned. 01:15.033 --> 01:16.633 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% The mayor said that to quote, 01:16.633 --> 01:18.766 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% "The situation is going to get a lot worse 01:18.766 --> 01:21.100 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% before it gets better." 01:21.100 --> 01:22.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Woman Survivor] I just remember 01:22.266 --> 01:23.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that there wasn't any water 01:23.800 --> 01:24.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and then there was. 01:25.733 --> 01:26.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (camera snapping) 01:26.733 --> 01:27.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Man Survivor] It uh... 01:27.666 --> 01:29.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% it happened so damn fast. 01:30.733 --> 01:32.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Man Survivor] And just literally in seconds, 01:32.800 --> 01:35.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the water's up to my knees and stuff. 01:35.000 --> 01:36.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And the current is so strong. 01:36.800 --> 01:37.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% We couldn't make it. 01:38.933 --> 01:39.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Woman Survivor] Pretty soon there was 01:39.800 --> 01:41.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% a great big log came up 01:41.533 --> 01:42.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% right by the windshield. 01:43.866 --> 01:45.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (camera snapping) 01:45.133 --> 01:46.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Woman Survivor] I remember stuff 01:46.100 --> 01:47.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% coming through this speedometer, 01:47.466 --> 01:49.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% water coming through this speedometer 01:49.100 --> 01:50.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and it opened up the, 01:50.233 --> 01:51.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the glove compartment. 01:51.600 --> 01:55.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And you know all of the, the radio. 01:55.066 --> 01:56.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Man Survivor] There was no swimming that night, 01:56.766 --> 01:59.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I'm telling you were just moving with the current. 01:59.266 --> 02:02.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And as fast as you were moving in the current 02:02.100 --> 02:03.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% things were going by you 02:03.266 --> 02:05.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% like ruptured propane tanks. 02:05.466 --> 02:06.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Well when they hit something, 02:06.600 --> 02:08.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% they would explode like a bomb. 02:09.766 --> 02:11.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Man Survivor] And you could hear 02:11.200 --> 02:12.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% from where we were 02:12.733 --> 02:14.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% people screaming 02:14.200 --> 02:17.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the river running and this and that. 02:17.633 --> 02:18.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And then pretty soon, 02:19.566 --> 02:21.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% they wouldn't scream anymore. 02:22.466 --> 02:23.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Man Survivor] There was a great big chunk 02:23.533 --> 02:24.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% of the roof hanging up 02:24.466 --> 02:25.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in a Cottonwood tree about 02:25.700 --> 02:28.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% a quarter of a mile East of here. 02:28.100 --> 02:28.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And we measured it 02:28.966 --> 02:30.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and it measured 27 feet 02:30.900 --> 02:32.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% from that piece of roof 02:32.600 --> 02:34.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% down to the crick bottom. 02:34.033 --> 02:35.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So that's how deep the water got 02:35.500 --> 02:36.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% coming through this area here. 02:36.966 --> 02:38.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Man Survivor] I looked ahead and, 02:38.900 --> 02:39.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and I thought, 02:39.800 --> 02:40.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "My God, that's a house 02:40.633 --> 02:42.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% coming down the road. 02:42.333 --> 02:44.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% How can there be a house in the road?" 02:44.700 --> 02:46.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - [Man Survivor] Two story houses 02:46.133 --> 02:47.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% were floating like a cork. 02:48.933 --> 02:49.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Just bobbed away. 02:51.100 --> 02:51.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Man Survivor] Lots and lots 02:51.933 --> 02:53.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% of thunder and lightning 02:53.333 --> 02:55.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and people screaming and yelling, 02:55.633 --> 02:56.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% "Help, help!" 02:56.900 --> 02:58.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And there's no way you could help 'em. 02:58.333 --> 02:59.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (camera snapping) 02:59.866 --> 03:01.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Man Survivor] It looked like it'd been hit by bombs. 03:01.800 --> 03:03.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Man Survivor] There was just not 03:03.000 --> 03:04.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% a single board left of the house. 03:05.966 --> 03:06.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Man Survivor] The magnitude, 03:06.900 --> 03:08.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I didn't have a clue 03:08.066 --> 03:11.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% there were gonna be 230 plus 03:11.300 --> 03:12.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% people die. 03:13.766 --> 03:15.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Man Survivor] Terrible, terrible experiences. 03:15.233 --> 03:17.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Finding people that's just like picking up jello. 03:17.800 --> 03:19.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They were so broke up from the water, 03:19.800 --> 03:21.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% just beating them up. 03:22.400 --> 03:24.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Man Survivor] It was almost like well, 03:25.666 --> 03:27.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I don't know. 03:27.333 --> 03:30.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Like death was hanging over the whole area. 03:30.533 --> 03:33.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (dramatic piano music) 03:40.900 --> 03:44.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Friday June 9th, 1972. 03:44.566 --> 03:47.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% An air mass pushes up the Eastern slopes 03:47.033 --> 03:49.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of South Dakota's Black Hills. 03:49.666 --> 03:52.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Powerful thunderstorms develop, 03:52.666 --> 03:54.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% winds are weak 03:54.133 --> 03:56.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% so the storms hover over the mountains. 03:57.500 --> 03:59.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Some locations receive 03:59.033 --> 04:02.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 15 inches of rain in six hours. 04:03.133 --> 04:05.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Flood warnings are issued, 04:05.100 --> 04:07.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but no one comprehends the scale 04:07.333 --> 04:08.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of what's about to happen. 04:09.533 --> 04:10.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% A flood surge, 04:10.700 --> 04:13.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% like a liquid avalanche rolls down 04:13.000 --> 04:16.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Rapid Creek toward Rapid City. 04:16.200 --> 04:18.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 50 years ago one of the nation's 04:18.700 --> 04:21.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% deadliest natural disasters begins. 04:23.400 --> 04:26.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Around 9:00 PM rain is falling 04:26.333 --> 04:28.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the water is rising in Rapid Creek. 04:30.233 --> 04:32.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% 29 year old Rapid City Mayor. 04:32.233 --> 04:35.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Don Barnett is on the city's West side, 04:35.500 --> 04:37.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% monitoring the situation. 04:37.466 --> 04:39.700 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% - I had not put the warning out yet. 04:39.700 --> 04:42.500 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% And I went to the upper levels of Canyon Lake, 04:42.500 --> 04:44.900 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% where there was an old wooden bridge 04:44.900 --> 04:47.833 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% that crossed at the very top of Canyon Lake. 04:47.833 --> 04:50.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And it was about 300 yards 04:50.300 --> 04:53.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% downstream from the fish hatchery. 04:53.066 --> 04:54.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I pulled off the side of the road 04:54.866 --> 04:58.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and I saw a crew from Montana Dakota Utilities, 04:58.266 --> 04:59.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and they were pulling on 04:59.400 --> 05:01.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% a industrial size wrench 05:01.866 --> 05:04.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% trying to get the natural gas service, 05:04.900 --> 05:08.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% which was attached to that old wooden rotten bridge. 05:08.866 --> 05:12.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so the manager of the gas company, 05:12.766 --> 05:14.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% George Miller ran over, 05:14.066 --> 05:14.900 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% he said, 05:14.900 --> 05:15.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% "Come on mayor, 05:15.733 --> 05:16.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% give us a hand!" 05:16.733 --> 05:19.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% So I stepped out willing to help. 05:19.000 --> 05:21.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I would say within five seconds, 05:21.066 --> 05:23.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I was wet from the top of my head 05:23.366 --> 05:25.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to the bottom of my toes. 05:25.266 --> 05:26.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And we reached over there 05:26.600 --> 05:29.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and it was about a six or seven foot wrench, 05:29.133 --> 05:30.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and we all pulled on it 05:30.600 --> 05:31.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and we heard the, 05:31.533 --> 05:32.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "Crunch, crunch, crunch." 05:32.700 --> 05:34.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And within about a minute, 05:34.300 --> 05:36.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we had that gas line blocked off. 05:36.900 --> 05:39.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we looked up and saw this small car. 05:39.466 --> 05:40.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It was rolling in the creek 05:40.933 --> 05:43.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and going up and down and underwater. 05:43.266 --> 05:45.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And it looked to be in terrible, 05:45.500 --> 05:46.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% terrible danger. 05:46.900 --> 05:47.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And George said, 05:47.733 --> 05:49.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "My goodness Don, 05:49.000 --> 05:51.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I hope nobody's in that car." 05:51.500 --> 05:53.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then the car hit the wooden bridge 05:53.266 --> 05:54.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and went under 05:54.333 --> 05:56.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and got blocked with something. 05:56.933 --> 05:58.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And a few minutes later, 05:58.133 --> 05:59.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we were standing there 05:59.233 --> 06:01.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the crew was ready to move on 06:01.200 --> 06:03.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to the next challenge. 06:03.200 --> 06:04.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And George said, 06:04.100 --> 06:06.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "My goodness Don, 06:06.200 --> 06:09.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% somebody could get killed in this thing." 06:09.433 --> 06:13.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And then I heard this crunch 06:13.000 --> 06:15.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and the bridge imploded 06:15.300 --> 06:18.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and floated into the middle of Canyon Lake. 06:18.900 --> 06:20.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And I looked at George, 06:20.000 --> 06:20.833 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% I said, 06:20.833 --> 06:22.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "I'm gonna find a phone 06:22.300 --> 06:24.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and put out the warning right now. 06:27.733 --> 06:29.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Captain James Whitehead 06:29.166 --> 06:31.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% is sent West of Rapid City 06:31.333 --> 06:32.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% after a day of training 06:32.533 --> 06:34.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% with the National Guard. 06:34.466 --> 06:35.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [James] We were down at 06:35.433 --> 06:37.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the Daisy Dell Drive In 06:37.033 --> 06:37.933 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% for supper that night 06:37.933 --> 06:39.200 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% when it started raining. 06:40.200 --> 06:41.500 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% And when I got home, 06:41.500 --> 06:44.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% it was all over the radio that uh, 06:44.166 --> 06:45.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% we were supposed to report 06:45.200 --> 06:46.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to our duty station. 06:46.633 --> 06:49.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% They dispatched another, 06:49.333 --> 06:50.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% major and I. 06:50.266 --> 06:52.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I was a captain at the time, 06:52.466 --> 06:54.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% up to Johnson sighting to see 06:54.766 --> 06:57.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% what the weather was like up there. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And we got down this far 06:59.000 --> 07:01.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% on 44 where the water was running 07:01.700 --> 07:03.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% across the road from that other canyon there. 07:03.766 --> 07:06.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So we couldn't even go any further. 07:06.133 --> 07:07.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then there was an older couple, 07:07.933 --> 07:10.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% would've been about 50 yards 07:10.166 --> 07:11.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% from where we left him 07:11.566 --> 07:12.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and they were just standing out there 07:12.766 --> 07:14.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the water was about chest high then. 07:16.666 --> 07:19.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so I helped them get into a tree. 07:20.066 --> 07:21.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I figured it was about time 07:21.333 --> 07:22.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% for me to get into a tree. 07:22.600 --> 07:26.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So I got up into one of these big Oak trees here 07:26.400 --> 07:27.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and pretty dark. 07:27.500 --> 07:29.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And all of a sudden, 07:29.300 --> 07:30.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% something hit the, 07:30.300 --> 07:31.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% hit the tree. 07:31.566 --> 07:32.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And it was a house that floated down 07:32.700 --> 07:33.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and hit the tree. 07:33.533 --> 07:34.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 07:35.200 --> 07:36.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I thought, 07:36.033 --> 07:36.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "Whoa boy you know, 07:36.866 --> 07:37.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% it was really, 07:37.800 --> 07:40.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I could feel the roots popping. 07:41.333 --> 07:42.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And while I was in the tree, 07:42.566 --> 07:44.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I'd just shake the tree every time 07:44.200 --> 07:46.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% one of them big roots would break. 07:47.200 --> 07:49.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% And I thought, (chuckling) 07:49.933 --> 07:51.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "Well if this tree goes over, 07:51.400 --> 07:53.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the only choice is to jump 07:53.433 --> 07:54.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% on the roof of the house 07:54.566 --> 07:56.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and see what happens after that." 07:56.566 --> 07:57.733 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% But... 07:57.733 --> 07:59.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% it held and uh, 08:00.300 --> 08:02.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and then the water you know, 08:02.033 --> 08:02.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% it just kept going 08:02.966 --> 08:04.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and it was just so noisy. 08:04.433 --> 08:05.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% You couldn't hear somebody, 08:05.366 --> 08:07.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But I seen propane tanks, 08:07.300 --> 08:09.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% semis going down through here, 08:09.300 --> 08:10.466 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% houses... 08:10.466 --> 08:11.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% whenever the lightning 08:11.733 --> 08:14.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% would light it up to where you could see. 08:14.166 --> 08:15.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And it was just, 08:15.400 --> 08:16.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% it was really terrible. 08:18.466 --> 08:20.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Teenager Robbie Corner 08:20.400 --> 08:21.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% is out with friends, 08:21.433 --> 08:23.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% looking at flood damage. 08:23.300 --> 08:25.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% When they return to his mother's creekside home 08:25.833 --> 08:28.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on the city's far Western edge, 08:28.233 --> 08:29.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% they find it surrounded 08:29.433 --> 08:31.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% by fast moving water. 08:31.300 --> 08:33.166 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% - So we stood there and debated, 08:33.166 --> 08:34.000 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% you know should we try 08:34.000 --> 08:35.700 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% to get to the house? 08:35.700 --> 08:37.033 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% But about that point... 08:39.066 --> 08:40.600 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% houses started washing by 08:40.600 --> 08:41.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% where we were standing there 08:41.800 --> 08:43.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and propane tanks. 08:43.633 --> 08:44.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And propane tanks were 08:44.600 --> 08:46.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% hitting trees and exploding. 08:46.800 --> 08:48.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And people were on the roof, 08:48.433 --> 08:50.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% roofs of the houses that were floating by 08:50.066 --> 08:51.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and they were screaming. 08:51.866 --> 08:52.700 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Um... 08:52.700 --> 08:53.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And so you know, 08:53.766 --> 08:54.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% we could just see there's, 08:54.933 --> 08:55.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there's no way we're gonna be able 08:55.733 --> 08:56.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to get to the house 08:57.666 --> 08:58.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and hoped that they had 08:58.933 --> 09:00.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% gotten out of there while we were gone. 09:02.400 --> 09:03.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The water was just washing 09:03.500 --> 09:04.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% over the highway down here. 09:04.766 --> 09:08.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It was coming out of Nameless Cave Road 09:08.600 --> 09:09.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and that canyon, 09:09.833 --> 09:12.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and it was just like pouring over 09:12.200 --> 09:13.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the highway embankment right here, 09:13.533 --> 09:15.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% down into this canyon. 09:15.733 --> 09:16.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I can, 09:16.600 --> 09:17.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I can remember that it 09:17.533 --> 09:18.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% sounded like a freight train. 09:18.800 --> 09:21.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean you couldn't just talk in a normal voice. 09:21.300 --> 09:22.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% You had to like yell 09:22.300 --> 09:24.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% because that was so loud. 09:24.733 --> 09:26.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 09:26.433 --> 09:27.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% so before too long, 09:27.533 --> 09:29.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% some National Guard 09:29.700 --> 09:31.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% were going up the highway there. 09:31.766 --> 09:33.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I guess, 09:33.966 --> 09:35.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we were yelling at 'em 09:35.200 --> 09:37.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to see if there's any way they could, 09:37.066 --> 09:38.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% you know do something 09:38.033 --> 09:39.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% to see if my mom 09:39.033 --> 09:40.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and my neighbors had escaped. 09:40.866 --> 09:43.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And they said there was nothing they could do. 09:43.766 --> 09:45.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And they also told us 09:45.166 --> 09:46.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we couldn't stay there 09:46.066 --> 09:47.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% where we were standing. 09:47.966 --> 09:49.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And so we put up an argument, 09:49.533 --> 09:51.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but they basically just grabbed us 09:51.266 --> 09:53.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and hauled us up the hill 09:53.133 --> 09:58.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and the house which is now Mid-State Camper Sales 09:59.000 --> 10:00.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% was owned then by a family 10:00.066 --> 10:01.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% by the name of Paseka. 10:01.900 --> 10:04.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so they took us up to that house 10:04.500 --> 10:05.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and all night long 10:05.366 --> 10:06.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% they were bringing in 10:06.300 --> 10:07.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% other people into that house. 10:09.100 --> 10:11.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] Dave Baumberger was moving items 10:11.033 --> 10:13.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% out of his father's low lying home, 10:13.266 --> 10:14.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% along Rapid Creek. 10:15.533 --> 10:17.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - [Dave] And we came in, 10:17.100 --> 10:18.333 align:left position:40% line:5% size:50% my dad, 10:18.333 --> 10:21.000 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% and a old friend of the family and me 10:21.000 --> 10:21.933 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% and we walked in 10:21.933 --> 10:23.466 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% and we walked to the house 10:23.466 --> 10:24.700 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% and we started getting 10:24.700 --> 10:26.800 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% some stuff out of the house. 10:26.800 --> 10:29.333 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% And the water started coming up in 10:30.500 --> 10:34.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% higher than we were comfortable with. 10:34.533 --> 10:36.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we decided we should get out. 10:36.500 --> 10:38.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And there was a neighbor family 10:38.833 --> 10:40.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% next to my folks 10:41.033 --> 10:42.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% that uh... 10:42.733 --> 10:44.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Had three boys 10:44.333 --> 10:46.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the mother and father. 10:46.533 --> 10:49.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And there was a lady across, 10:49.433 --> 10:50.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% they lived on a small 10:50.633 --> 10:52.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% cul-de-sac with four houses. 10:53.566 --> 10:55.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% There was a lady across 10:55.400 --> 10:56.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% that was left there too. 10:56.966 --> 10:57.766 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 10:58.800 --> 10:59.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we tried to walk out 10:59.800 --> 11:01.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the water was coming up 11:01.233 --> 11:02.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% too fast to get walked out. 11:02.966 --> 11:05.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So we decided we'd go to the highest house, 11:05.133 --> 11:06.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% which was uh... 11:06.366 --> 11:08.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the lady across the... 11:08.933 --> 11:10.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% cul-de-sac. 11:10.400 --> 11:12.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And we got in the house 11:12.233 --> 11:13.100 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% and... 11:13.100 --> 11:15.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we were waiting for 11:15.366 --> 11:16.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% a rescue or whatever. 11:16.700 --> 11:17.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I don't know. 11:17.533 --> 11:18.466 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% But anyway, 11:18.466 --> 11:19.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the water kept coming up and up. 11:19.700 --> 11:22.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And when the refrigerator 11:22.066 --> 11:24.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% started floating in the kitchen, 11:24.300 --> 11:27.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we found a way to get into the attic. 11:27.600 --> 11:30.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we got up into the attic of the house. 11:30.300 --> 11:31.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% The water was coming up 11:31.733 --> 11:34.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% in three or four foot... 11:34.200 --> 11:36.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% increments at a time. 11:36.466 --> 11:39.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It wasn't just a steady, slow rise. 11:39.900 --> 11:40.733 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% So... 11:41.766 --> 11:43.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% eventually the house 11:43.133 --> 11:45.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% started shifting off the foundation 11:45.300 --> 11:47.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and started breaking apart. 11:47.433 --> 11:49.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we were all in the attic at that time. 11:49.966 --> 11:52.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And the roof broke apart. 11:52.800 --> 11:54.333 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 11:54.333 --> 11:55.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to be honest with you, 11:55.800 --> 11:57.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I don't know what happened with everybody else. 11:57.800 --> 12:01.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I got out through the fracture in the roof. 12:01.966 --> 12:03.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I got out of the house 12:03.166 --> 12:05.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I got carried by the water 12:05.100 --> 12:07.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% down to the... 12:07.166 --> 12:08.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% lake shore. 12:08.600 --> 12:10.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I got hung up in a tree. 12:11.200 --> 12:14.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And so I stayed in the tree 12:14.233 --> 12:16.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% until the tree next to me, 12:16.800 --> 12:17.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% tipped over. 12:18.533 --> 12:20.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And the lightning was flashing 12:20.300 --> 12:22.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% bright enough that night, 12:22.133 --> 12:23.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that it just lit everything up 12:23.600 --> 12:25.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% like daylight when it did flash. 12:26.333 --> 12:27.466 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And I... 12:27.466 --> 12:28.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% in one of the flashes of lightning, 12:28.733 --> 12:31.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there was a big inner tube come floating by 12:31.200 --> 12:32.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I made a jump for it. 12:32.366 --> 12:33.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Cause I figured, 12:33.200 --> 12:34.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "Well my tree's next. 12:34.033 --> 12:35.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% If that tree went." 12:35.533 --> 12:37.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I missed it. 12:37.000 --> 12:38.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I got out in the lake 12:39.500 --> 12:41.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I was swimming to the shore 12:41.633 --> 12:44.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I'm guessing I was maybe 12:44.033 --> 12:46.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% 20 to 25 feet off shore. 12:47.200 --> 12:48.366 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 12:48.366 --> 12:49.466 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% the dam broke. 12:50.633 --> 12:52.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Narrator] The Canyon Lake Dam 12:52.033 --> 12:53.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% holds back Rapid Creek 12:53.466 --> 12:55.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% on the city's West side. 12:55.633 --> 12:57.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Stream gauges above the lake 12:57.633 --> 13:01.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% record a rise of 13 feet in four hours. 13:01.800 --> 13:06.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% At about 10:45 PM the Canyon Lake Dam ruptures, 13:07.666 --> 13:09.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Dave Baumberger is in the lake, 13:09.400 --> 13:11.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% when it happens. 13:11.233 --> 13:12.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - [Dave] I knew because 13:12.066 --> 13:13.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the way the water went. 13:13.233 --> 13:17.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The water just started rushing out. 13:17.100 --> 13:18.000 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% I mean, 13:18.000 --> 13:19.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% immediately. 13:19.366 --> 13:21.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% So I went down 13:21.500 --> 13:24.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and through where the dam was in the spillway. 13:24.233 --> 13:25.066 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 13:26.900 --> 13:27.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I don't know. 13:27.733 --> 13:28.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I was swimming, 13:28.566 --> 13:29.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% but I was, 13:29.800 --> 13:31.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I didn't know if I was swimming up or down. 13:31.133 --> 13:31.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Half the time, 13:31.966 --> 13:32.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to be honest with you. 13:33.900 --> 13:35.033 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 13:35.033 --> 13:36.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% after that, 13:36.200 --> 13:39.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I just started bouncing off stuff, 13:39.066 --> 13:41.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% going down downstream. 13:41.633 --> 13:44.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And I wound up down 13:44.000 --> 13:45.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% close to where the mortuary is 13:45.600 --> 13:47.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% on Jackson Boulevard. 13:48.500 --> 13:50.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] About a mile downstream of the dam, 13:50.800 --> 13:53.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% pastor Ron Masters and his wife LaVonne 13:53.900 --> 13:55.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% are preparing to evacuate 13:55.233 --> 13:56.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% with their five children. 13:56.833 --> 13:58.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Including their oldest daughter, Karen. 14:00.300 --> 14:01.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Well when we decided to leave, 14:01.733 --> 14:03.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there was water gushing downstairs. 14:03.600 --> 14:04.833 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50% - Yeah. - Yeah. 14:04.833 --> 14:06.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Karen] Don't you remember that? 14:06.033 --> 14:07.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Ron] Right. - [LaVonne] Yeah. 14:07.233 --> 14:08.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Ron] It was coming into our basement 14:08.033 --> 14:08.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and we had a Mercury 14:08.833 --> 14:11.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and then we had a 65 14:12.333 --> 14:14.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% International four wheel drive, 14:14.033 --> 14:15.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and I said, 14:15.266 --> 14:16.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "Let's take the four wheel drive." 14:16.566 --> 14:17.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% So we got out 14:17.566 --> 14:18.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and got in it 14:18.500 --> 14:19.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and then came across the, 14:21.100 --> 14:22.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% just across the bridge 14:22.300 --> 14:23.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the current caught us, 14:23.733 --> 14:25.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% if we'd have had another, - The first wall 14:25.000 --> 14:26.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% of water came. 14:26.200 --> 14:27.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - If we'd have had another... 14:28.800 --> 14:30.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% 15 seconds. - Yeah. 14:30.033 --> 14:32.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Or less we'd have been ahead of it. 14:32.666 --> 14:34.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But the first wall of water caught us 14:34.566 --> 14:35.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and swept us right across, 14:35.833 --> 14:37.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% over here in the trees, 14:37.366 --> 14:38.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% right over there. 14:38.833 --> 14:40.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Karen] The picture doesn't show it real well, 14:40.333 --> 14:41.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but we were kind of backed up against three trees. 14:41.933 --> 14:43.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% - [Ron] Yes. 14:43.133 --> 14:44.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The back bumper. - [Karen] That's why 14:44.233 --> 14:45.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I think... - [Ron] the tree... 14:45.166 --> 14:46.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Karen] That's why I think 14:46.466 --> 14:47.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% we didn't get... - [Ron] But that tree held it. 14:47.133 --> 14:48.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% It was about, 14:48.066 --> 14:49.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that much of the back bumper 14:49.300 --> 14:50.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% that kept us 14:50.700 --> 14:52.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% forced between these two trees. 14:52.066 --> 14:53.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - You know what's interesting though. 14:53.800 --> 14:54.900 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% I just wanna say, 14:54.900 --> 14:56.233 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% in our vehicle, 14:56.233 --> 14:57.166 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% there was peace. 14:58.500 --> 14:59.333 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% We all... 15:01.200 --> 15:02.133 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% were telling each other 15:02.133 --> 15:03.533 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% that we loved each other. 15:03.533 --> 15:04.466 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% And we all thought we were 15:04.466 --> 15:06.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% gonna be in heaven together 15:06.366 --> 15:07.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% was what we thought, 15:07.200 --> 15:08.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% because we thought there 15:08.033 --> 15:09.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% was no way to get out. 15:09.066 --> 15:10.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And then dad just felt 15:10.100 --> 15:11.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% really prompted to move and, 15:11.466 --> 15:13.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and get some of us out. 15:13.300 --> 15:14.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Because I had in the vehicle, 15:14.933 --> 15:17.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I had my nose to the ceiling already. 15:17.066 --> 15:18.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And I said to God, 15:18.233 --> 15:19.433 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% I said, 15:19.433 --> 15:20.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "God, are you threw really through with me, 15:20.733 --> 15:23.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% is this time for me to come home?" 15:23.300 --> 15:24.333 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% - And it was about then 15:24.333 --> 15:26.300 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% that Jonathan or Steven, 15:26.300 --> 15:28.300 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% our oldest son 15:28.300 --> 15:30.500 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% said to his dad, 15:30.500 --> 15:31.433 align:left position:40% line:5% size:50% he said, 15:31.433 --> 15:34.600 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% "Dad this is all in God's hands. 15:34.600 --> 15:36.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And that's the last word we heard him say. 15:36.433 --> 15:38.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - And then Jonathan said to me, 15:38.466 --> 15:39.466 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% he said, 15:39.466 --> 15:41.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "I just love you so much." 15:41.800 --> 15:43.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Oh, he came up and hugged your neck. 15:43.500 --> 15:44.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% - Yeah. 15:44.300 --> 15:45.133 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% - Yeah. 15:45.133 --> 15:46.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I uh... 15:46.133 --> 15:47.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% that's when I, 15:47.266 --> 15:48.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% when I said, 15:48.200 --> 15:49.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "God, are you through with me?" 15:49.133 --> 15:50.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% That's when I just started 15:50.466 --> 15:52.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% acting without thinking, 15:52.666 --> 15:53.500 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% I... 15:53.500 --> 15:54.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% it was just like, 15:54.433 --> 15:55.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% everything was automatic then. 15:55.400 --> 15:56.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% That's when I let my legs 15:57.633 --> 15:59.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% float up over LaVonne 15:59.500 --> 16:00.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and kicked the window 16:00.866 --> 16:01.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% on the opposite side 16:01.900 --> 16:02.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% where I was sitting 16:02.733 --> 16:04.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and then was able to 16:04.166 --> 16:05.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% get out through that, 16:05.333 --> 16:07.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% reached out and pulled her out 16:07.800 --> 16:09.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and then reached in for Karen. 16:10.966 --> 16:12.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] While Ron is pulling 14 year old Karen 16:12.700 --> 16:14.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% out of the vehicle. 16:14.166 --> 16:15.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The raging current sweeps 16:15.500 --> 16:17.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% two year old Timothy away. 16:17.500 --> 16:20.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And that was because I was holding him 16:20.200 --> 16:21.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% when I got pulled out. 16:21.166 --> 16:23.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - And he was just two. 16:23.200 --> 16:24.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - So he was two and a half. - Yeah. 16:24.933 --> 16:25.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - He was my buddy. 16:27.066 --> 16:28.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% We were buds. - Yeah. 16:28.633 --> 16:29.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I lost him. 16:29.900 --> 16:31.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Water covers their car, 16:31.900 --> 16:34.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Ron, LaVonne and Karen struggle 16:34.066 --> 16:35.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to survive in the roiling 16:35.733 --> 16:37.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% debris filled current. 16:37.666 --> 16:39.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They fear the other children, 16:39.500 --> 16:42.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Joanne, Stephen and Jonathan 16:42.033 --> 16:43.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% have not survived. 16:43.533 --> 16:45.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Once I got out of the vehicle. 16:45.233 --> 16:46.433 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% - Yep. 16:46.433 --> 16:48.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I had LaVonne where I held onto her 16:48.200 --> 16:50.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% with one arm like this 16:50.000 --> 16:51.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% from about 10:30 at night, 16:51.833 --> 16:54.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% till four o'clock in the morning. 16:54.100 --> 16:55.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Just hung on. 16:55.333 --> 16:56.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [LaVonne] And I had a hold of... 16:56.266 --> 16:57.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Ron] She had a hold... 16:57.066 --> 16:58.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - [LaVonne] Branch... 16:58.533 --> 16:59.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Ron] Branch of the... - [LaVonne] Up above my head 16:59.333 --> 17:00.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% tree and she said to me 17:00.333 --> 17:01.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% several times in the night, 17:01.133 --> 17:01.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "Honey, just let me go." 17:01.800 --> 17:02.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I said, 17:02.733 --> 17:04.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "I'm not gonna let you go." 17:04.033 --> 17:05.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And it was, - I was getting so tired. 17:05.266 --> 17:06.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% oh, miraculous the way I could hang on to her. 17:06.400 --> 17:08.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And Karen was like, 17:08.133 --> 17:09.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% right where she is now, 17:09.533 --> 17:10.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% she was hanging on. 17:10.666 --> 17:12.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I climbed a little tree 17:12.466 --> 17:14.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% that was there. - She found a little tree 17:14.133 --> 17:16.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% was being protected 17:16.066 --> 17:18.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% by one of these big ones. 17:18.300 --> 17:19.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And it, so the water kind of 17:19.933 --> 17:21.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% swirled around her this way. 17:23.300 --> 17:26.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] Rapid Creek continues its swollen rampage. 17:26.433 --> 17:28.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Knocking out electrical power 17:28.033 --> 17:31.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and throwing flood victims into darkness. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Tom Haggerty is in bed at his parents' home. 17:33.933 --> 17:36.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Tom] My dad started yelling for me 17:36.133 --> 17:38.066 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% at like one in the morning, 17:38.066 --> 17:39.300 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% got me out bed. 17:39.300 --> 17:40.500 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% And uh... 17:40.500 --> 17:42.566 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% we lived on 17:42.566 --> 17:44.733 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% Lanark Road which is about a 17:44.733 --> 17:46.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% not a full block from where 17:46.466 --> 17:50.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the main force of the water came through. 17:50.666 --> 17:52.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And the water was hitting 17:52.400 --> 17:54.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the front of our house. 17:54.100 --> 17:55.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And it was, 17:55.033 --> 17:56.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% there was so much pressure 17:56.300 --> 17:59.266 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% that it was raising our garage doors. 17:59.266 --> 18:01.633 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% So my dad had me come out 18:01.633 --> 18:05.966 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% and help him tie down the garage doors. 18:05.966 --> 18:10.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% When we opened the ground level door from the garage 18:10.733 --> 18:12.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% about a foot and a half of water 18:12.233 --> 18:14.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% came falling into the house. 18:14.200 --> 18:17.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Anyway we closed up the garage doors. 18:17.266 --> 18:19.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% There was not any light. 18:19.000 --> 18:20.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I mean you know, 18:20.233 --> 18:22.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% if you've been in a cave 18:22.000 --> 18:23.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and you know what it's like 18:23.066 --> 18:24.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% when they turn off the lights, 18:24.333 --> 18:27.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that's what it was like that night. 18:27.600 --> 18:28.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Except there was this, 18:28.833 --> 18:32.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% this huge sound of water rushing. 18:33.566 --> 18:35.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I mean it was just like this roar. 18:35.766 --> 18:38.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we went out on our back porch 18:38.066 --> 18:39.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% since the water was going around 18:39.500 --> 18:41.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% both sides of our house. 18:41.466 --> 18:43.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And it was probably a couple feet deep. 18:43.966 --> 18:46.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And so we were on our back porch 18:46.566 --> 18:49.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and in our backyard is a pond, 18:49.400 --> 18:51.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% it's still there today. 18:51.133 --> 18:52.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Well the water was running 18:52.433 --> 18:56.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% straight back down behind our house. 18:56.266 --> 18:58.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And it was very eerie 18:58.433 --> 18:59.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% because you could hear 18:59.366 --> 19:01.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% people screaming for help 19:01.633 --> 19:02.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% as they floated by. 19:02.700 --> 19:04.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% But I couldn't see... 19:04.466 --> 19:05.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% you. 19:05.300 --> 19:06.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I mean it was so dark. 19:06.533 --> 19:07.600 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% It was, 19:07.600 --> 19:08.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% you couldn't see anything 19:08.900 --> 19:11.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% past the length of your arm. 19:11.166 --> 19:13.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Occasionally there'd be lightning strikes, 19:13.800 --> 19:15.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but even that you couldn't see 19:15.366 --> 19:17.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% cause the clouds were so thick. 19:17.400 --> 19:18.466 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 19:18.466 --> 19:19.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Anyway I sat there with, 19:19.800 --> 19:21.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% stood there with my dad 19:21.200 --> 19:23.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and my neighbor Fuzz Ewing 19:23.333 --> 19:26.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and talking about what could we do 19:26.100 --> 19:27.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to help these people that we had heard 19:27.833 --> 19:29.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% screaming floating past 19:29.400 --> 19:31.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and we didn't have a rope. 19:31.300 --> 19:33.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We couldn't see anything. 19:34.533 --> 19:36.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It would've been suicide to try to go down 19:36.733 --> 19:38.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you'd never found the people, anyway. 19:38.933 --> 19:41.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So it was just a horrible situation. 19:43.633 --> 19:45.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Just west of downtown, 19:45.500 --> 19:47.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% surging floodwater from Rapid Creek 19:47.600 --> 19:51.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% rises around a car filled with six teenagers. 19:51.100 --> 19:52.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They pull into a parking lot 19:52.400 --> 19:54.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% near the multi-story Rushmore building, 19:54.600 --> 19:56.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% looking for protection. 19:56.233 --> 19:57.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - As soon as we stop the car 19:57.900 --> 20:00.033 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% behind Payless shoe store, 20:00.033 --> 20:02.800 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% Kay just instantly jumps outta the car 20:02.800 --> 20:04.000 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% and takes off running 20:04.000 --> 20:05.800 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% to the Rushmore building. 20:05.800 --> 20:08.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And there was fire escape ladders in the back. 20:08.233 --> 20:10.233 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% - And I just ran you know, 20:10.233 --> 20:12.600 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% I saw the fire escape and it was like, 20:12.600 --> 20:13.966 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% "Well that's off the ground, 20:13.966 --> 20:15.700 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% fire escape it's safe." 20:15.700 --> 20:17.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - And she made it and I said, 20:17.333 --> 20:18.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% "Let's go! 20:18.900 --> 20:21.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And just literally in seconds, 20:21.466 --> 20:23.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the water's up to my knees and stuff. 20:23.666 --> 20:25.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And the current is so strong. 20:25.500 --> 20:26.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% We couldn't make it. 20:26.733 --> 20:28.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - So I got over here and got up there. 20:28.200 --> 20:30.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Well then I was hollering at em', 20:30.500 --> 20:31.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% you know and, 20:31.733 --> 20:34.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but it was getting loud by then. 20:34.500 --> 20:36.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And um... 20:36.400 --> 20:38.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I uh you know, 20:38.266 --> 20:39.533 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% said... 20:39.533 --> 20:40.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% was motioning and hollering you know, 20:40.833 --> 20:41.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% "Come over!" 20:42.733 --> 20:44.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% You know, "Come over here." 20:44.233 --> 20:45.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 20:47.233 --> 20:48.266 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Ed. 20:48.266 --> 20:49.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% The other gentleman 20:49.900 --> 20:52.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that had gotten in the car with Gayle and I, 20:52.366 --> 20:55.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% he tried to bring Gale over to me. 20:55.000 --> 20:57.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But by that time the water was too swift. 20:57.933 --> 20:59.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They couldn't get through. 20:59.566 --> 21:01.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So they went back over. 21:01.166 --> 21:03.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Were attempting to get up 21:03.066 --> 21:05.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% on top of the roof when 21:05.833 --> 21:07.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the wall of water came. 21:07.300 --> 21:08.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - So we're back there, 21:08.300 --> 21:10.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we're looking for a tree 21:10.333 --> 21:13.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or anything that we can get up on. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then I spot some plumbing pipes 21:15.266 --> 21:18.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% coming outta the top corner of the building. 21:18.400 --> 21:19.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I said, 21:19.333 --> 21:21.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "You know I can get in my car 21:21.266 --> 21:22.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and I'll pull it up next 21:22.433 --> 21:24.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to the side of the building. 21:24.066 --> 21:26.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Then I can jump up on the roof 21:26.333 --> 21:27.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I can grab those pipes 21:27.666 --> 21:29.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I'll pull you guys all up." 21:29.566 --> 21:31.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Well as soon as I went over the car 21:31.366 --> 21:33.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and opened up the car door, 21:33.733 --> 21:35.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I looked up and the back wall 21:35.133 --> 21:37.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of the building blew out. 21:37.333 --> 21:39.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Ed Healy and Gayle Nemeti 21:39.500 --> 21:40.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% are standing near the wall 21:40.700 --> 21:42.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% when it blows out, 21:42.166 --> 21:44.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% their bodies are found later. 21:44.133 --> 21:46.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I saw the wall come down, 21:46.633 --> 21:48.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% you know wash out 21:48.333 --> 21:50.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and take, 21:50.500 --> 21:51.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Ed and Gayle where... 21:51.933 --> 21:54.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% he was trying to help her up there. 21:54.233 --> 21:55.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And um... 21:55.933 --> 21:57.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I saw them 21:57.533 --> 21:59.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and um... 21:59.233 --> 22:01.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% shoe boxes, 22:01.233 --> 22:03.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the inside of the building, you know? 22:06.666 --> 22:08.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And so then I ran up. 22:08.000 --> 22:08.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% That's when, 22:08.933 --> 22:11.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that's when I ran from here 22:11.733 --> 22:12.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% up to the next one, 22:12.966 --> 22:14.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% cause I couldn't get in this door. 22:14.933 --> 22:17.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So I ran up to the next one 22:17.500 --> 22:20.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and that door was open. 22:20.600 --> 22:24.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - The car shot straight back into a tree. 22:24.033 --> 22:25.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I was hanging onto the car door. 22:25.966 --> 22:28.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And then I see Randy 22:28.400 --> 22:32.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and John are on the back bumper still hanging on. 22:32.633 --> 22:35.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So I work my way back to them 22:35.200 --> 22:37.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and as we're hanging on to the bumper, 22:37.633 --> 22:39.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% well the water just keeps increasing 22:39.666 --> 22:42.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and it's shooting over the roof of the car 22:42.266 --> 22:44.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and it's like being underneath a waterfall. 22:44.900 --> 22:46.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% It was drowning us. 22:46.700 --> 22:49.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we looked at each other and we said, 22:49.466 --> 22:51.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "I hope to see you again tomorrow." 22:51.566 --> 22:54.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we all just let go and took off. 22:57.766 --> 22:59.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Arlene Mattis is in a vehicle 22:59.666 --> 23:01.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% with her husband Jack, 23:01.300 --> 23:03.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% her sister Millie Raywalt 23:03.233 --> 23:05.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and Millie's husband, Gene. 23:05.700 --> 23:07.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They reach the center of town 23:07.200 --> 23:09.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and encounter high water. 23:09.400 --> 23:10.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Their car stalls. 23:10.833 --> 23:13.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% So they get in with another man who's driving by. 23:13.800 --> 23:15.566 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% - He got us all up there 23:15.566 --> 23:17.233 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% and there was a rack on top of the car 23:17.233 --> 23:19.700 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% and we all five got up there 23:19.700 --> 23:21.700 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% and floated on that car 23:21.700 --> 23:23.666 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% until a little roof came by. 23:23.666 --> 23:24.600 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% Cause there was some kind of, 23:24.600 --> 23:26.466 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% a little camping thing I think 23:26.466 --> 23:28.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% was at that intersection at the time. 23:29.600 --> 23:31.033 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 23:31.033 --> 23:34.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% so we got on this roof 23:34.433 --> 23:35.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% when that roof came by, 23:35.600 --> 23:37.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% we five got on this roof. 23:38.566 --> 23:41.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then we floated a while on there 23:41.300 --> 23:43.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and a bigger roof come by 23:43.933 --> 23:45.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and we all stepped across 23:45.800 --> 23:46.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and got on there. 23:46.633 --> 23:47.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Because we were a little 23:47.566 --> 23:49.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% higher up from the water. 23:49.633 --> 23:51.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And we were on there for a while 23:51.100 --> 23:53.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and all the while these, 23:53.266 --> 23:54.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% these um... 23:55.466 --> 23:57.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% gas tank things were going by and 23:57.933 --> 23:59.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% fire, and 23:59.633 --> 24:01.200 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% logs, 24:01.200 --> 24:03.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and then about that time 24:03.433 --> 24:04.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% kind of a... 24:05.433 --> 24:07.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% little smaller house came 24:08.533 --> 24:10.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and it came by us 24:10.400 --> 24:12.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% so we all got on there 24:12.700 --> 24:15.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and about the time we all got on there, 24:15.066 --> 24:16.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% it split. 24:16.500 --> 24:18.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And my husband just got over with us. 24:18.466 --> 24:19.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% We were all on there. 24:19.466 --> 24:20.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And when it's where he split, 24:20.900 --> 24:22.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% he just stepped across. 24:22.066 --> 24:24.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And half of it went down the crick 24:24.633 --> 24:28.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and then we kept going on down. 24:28.300 --> 24:31.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We were not too far from Omaha 24:31.800 --> 24:33.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% heading East on this house. 24:33.933 --> 24:35.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And then a bigger house came. 24:35.800 --> 24:37.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% It was a little bigger. 24:37.300 --> 24:39.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So we all crawled up on that house. 24:39.966 --> 24:42.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And then... 24:42.700 --> 24:44.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% we floated on that for a while 24:44.733 --> 24:46.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and then a bigger house came 24:46.500 --> 24:49.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and we all got on that bigger house. 24:49.700 --> 24:52.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then this house was big enough 24:52.800 --> 24:55.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that it went down about well, 24:55.333 --> 24:57.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Rice Cycle was across the street. 24:57.700 --> 24:58.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% We were about right, 24:58.533 --> 24:59.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% where Rice Cycle was 25:01.366 --> 25:03.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on the other side of Omaha 25:03.500 --> 25:04.766 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% and it, 25:04.766 --> 25:06.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% this house wedged up against a tree 25:07.300 --> 25:08.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and uh... 25:08.233 --> 25:09.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% there was two big trees I think. 25:09.900 --> 25:10.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then there was a trailer house 25:10.733 --> 25:12.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% that was kind of wedged. 25:12.533 --> 25:13.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And our house caught there. 25:13.666 --> 25:15.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And that's where it stayed. 25:16.600 --> 25:17.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Narrator] Denny Bohls is 25:17.700 --> 25:19.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% at A and B Welding Supply 25:19.300 --> 25:22.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% playing cards with coworkers. 25:22.100 --> 25:23.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They plan to spend the night 25:23.533 --> 25:26.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% protecting the store's merchandise from high water. 25:26.600 --> 25:29.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Denny] We heard a knock at the back door 25:29.000 --> 25:30.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and went to back door to see who it was. 25:30.600 --> 25:35.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It happened to be one of our employees wives. 25:35.166 --> 25:36.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And she says, 25:36.000 --> 25:37.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% "Well..." 25:37.166 --> 25:39.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% He to be in Sioux Falls. 25:39.000 --> 25:40.300 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% On the way back from Sioux Falls 25:40.300 --> 25:41.766 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% with a transport. 25:41.766 --> 25:42.600 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% And she said, 25:42.600 --> 25:43.833 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% "Well tell Joe 25:43.833 --> 25:45.033 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% that we're gonna go to the church. 25:45.033 --> 25:47.866 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% The police just told us to evacuate." 25:47.866 --> 25:49.966 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% So we were by the back door of the building, 25:49.966 --> 25:52.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% which was on the North side. 25:52.133 --> 25:54.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we looked out at the pickup she was driving 25:54.800 --> 25:57.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and the pickup was already starting to float. 25:57.366 --> 25:59.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And she had her two girls in the pickup. 25:59.633 --> 26:01.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So myself and the other employee 26:01.266 --> 26:02.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ran out and we got the girls 26:02.400 --> 26:03.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% out of the pickup, 26:03.666 --> 26:05.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% headed back to the store. 26:05.566 --> 26:06.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And before, 26:06.533 --> 26:08.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% when we got back to the store, 26:09.300 --> 26:10.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% we turned around and looked 26:10.500 --> 26:12.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the pickup was floating away already. 26:12.466 --> 26:13.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (camera snapping) 26:13.400 --> 26:15.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And then we saw our neighbors, 26:15.000 --> 26:16.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% which was right to the South of the building. 26:16.500 --> 26:17.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% They were walking, 26:17.733 --> 26:19.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they were trying to across New York street 26:19.100 --> 26:21.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and they couldn't get across. 26:21.100 --> 26:23.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So we let 'em in the building. 26:23.266 --> 26:25.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we no more got in the building, 26:25.366 --> 26:27.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we heard something crack 26:27.233 --> 26:28.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and it turned around and looked 26:28.666 --> 26:30.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the cinder block building 26:30.200 --> 26:31.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% which was on the West side 26:31.133 --> 26:32.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% of the building cracked. 26:32.733 --> 26:34.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And it started coming in. 26:34.733 --> 26:36.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So we headed to the East, 26:36.366 --> 26:37.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the front of the building, 26:37.300 --> 26:38.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% which was on the East side 26:38.466 --> 26:40.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% to get it out. 26:40.033 --> 26:41.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we got to the front of the building 26:41.266 --> 26:42.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and we couldn't get the door open 26:42.500 --> 26:44.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because there was so much pressure on the, 26:44.433 --> 26:46.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% on the building itself. 26:46.066 --> 26:48.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So my boss Harold, 26:48.233 --> 26:49.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% kicked the glass out 26:49.900 --> 26:50.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and he went out 26:50.833 --> 26:52.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the neighbors went out. 26:52.233 --> 26:55.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% A man, woman and their son. 26:55.966 --> 26:57.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And then um... 26:57.233 --> 26:58.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And then that's, 26:58.166 --> 26:58.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% they just went in the dark 26:58.966 --> 26:59.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we just lost them. 26:59.733 --> 27:01.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% That's when we, 27:01.233 --> 27:02.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that's when we got pushed up in the corner 27:02.833 --> 27:04.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and climbed up in the counter 27:04.833 --> 27:06.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and stayed there all night long 27:06.433 --> 27:09.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the water was coming up inside the building, 27:09.533 --> 27:10.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% getting deeper and deeper 27:10.733 --> 27:12.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I kicked the plate glass window out, 27:12.700 --> 27:13.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the front window out 27:13.866 --> 27:14.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to let the water release 27:14.900 --> 27:16.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and let it run through. 27:16.633 --> 27:17.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 27:17.933 --> 27:18.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% we sat on that, 27:18.766 --> 27:19.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% or stood on that, 27:20.500 --> 27:21.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% that counter... 27:21.333 --> 27:22.866 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% should I say. 27:22.866 --> 27:24.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I had one of the girls 27:24.100 --> 27:25.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the other employee had the other girl, 27:25.900 --> 27:28.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and that was midnight. 27:28.166 --> 27:30.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we watched houses floating by 27:30.900 --> 27:32.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% with people with flashlights 27:32.800 --> 27:33.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and people hollering. 27:33.733 --> 27:34.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And you can see the flashlights 27:34.766 --> 27:35.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% in the upper windows. 27:35.900 --> 27:38.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% These were two story houses. 27:38.000 --> 27:40.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We see propane tanks floating by 27:40.000 --> 27:41.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with a fire shooting out of them. 27:42.900 --> 27:45.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The National Guard was here. 27:45.166 --> 27:46.333 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Uh... 27:46.333 --> 27:47.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They were following the crick down 27:47.466 --> 27:48.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and they were shooting their flares 27:48.700 --> 27:49.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% so everything had an orange glow. 27:49.833 --> 27:54.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% (mournful orchestral music) 27:54.066 --> 27:55.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Narrator] Dolores Allen flees 27:55.600 --> 27:58.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to hire ground with her husband and nephew 27:58.000 --> 28:00.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% before the flood surge comes. 28:00.533 --> 28:02.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But she can't convince her mother 28:02.133 --> 28:04.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and others to leave a house near the creek. 28:04.900 --> 28:05.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Delores] While we was walking 28:05.733 --> 28:06.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% away from the house, 28:06.900 --> 28:08.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% it was raining. 28:08.566 --> 28:09.566 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% And it was like, 28:09.566 --> 28:12.066 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% people were like being poured on, 28:12.066 --> 28:14.666 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% buckets of water were being poured on us, 28:14.666 --> 28:17.833 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% but we wrapped up by nephew in some plastic. 28:17.833 --> 28:22.066 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% And so that was really a huge downpour. 28:22.066 --> 28:23.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And then my mother, 28:23.266 --> 28:25.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I guess she looked out the window 28:26.233 --> 28:27.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and she seen waves coming. 28:27.533 --> 28:29.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% She saying like "Hawaii Five-O." 28:29.933 --> 28:30.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% So she said, 28:30.766 --> 28:31.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% "She's right. 28:33.100 --> 28:34.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We better get outta here." 28:34.100 --> 28:35.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And my aunt said, 28:37.500 --> 28:39.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "No I'm gonna stay. 28:39.300 --> 28:40.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% You know where its warm." 28:41.866 --> 28:43.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And my mother 28:43.266 --> 28:45.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and my cousin went running 28:45.233 --> 28:46.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% towards Philadelphia Street 28:46.433 --> 28:49.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% where my mother's house is 28:49.100 --> 28:50.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and um... 28:50.266 --> 28:51.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% they reached it 28:51.200 --> 28:52.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and she could hear a thud. 28:52.000 --> 28:53.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And she knew my, 28:53.000 --> 28:54.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% my cousin got, 28:54.233 --> 28:56.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% she hit a tree. 28:56.033 --> 28:57.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Of course she died. 28:57.033 --> 28:58.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And then my mother hung onto 28:58.300 --> 29:00.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the porch up to the ceiling, 29:00.333 --> 29:01.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% you know the rafter, 29:01.866 --> 29:03.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% she hung there. 29:03.100 --> 29:04.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% She said, 29:04.100 --> 29:05.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% "She had to grab onto something." 29:07.066 --> 29:09.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But she was saying she was praying 29:09.400 --> 29:10.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and asking for her to let, 29:10.933 --> 29:12.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% or she let me live. 29:13.733 --> 29:14.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I've got grandchildren 29:14.933 --> 29:15.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and stuff like that. 29:15.800 --> 29:17.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And she was up there, 29:17.066 --> 29:18.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% but you know, 29:18.133 --> 29:20.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the water was still coming up. 29:20.266 --> 29:21.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% So she heard, 29:21.100 --> 29:21.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% or the neighbor, 29:21.933 --> 29:23.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% her neighbor crying, 29:23.133 --> 29:24.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% crying out for help. 29:25.133 --> 29:25.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 29:27.100 --> 29:29.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% finally that the rescue boat came by 29:31.966 --> 29:33.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and seeing them and picks them up. 29:33.833 --> 29:35.000 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Yeah. 29:35.000 --> 29:36.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% But my cousin was gone. 29:38.966 --> 29:40.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] As the water begins to recede 29:40.900 --> 29:42.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% after a night of terror. 29:42.600 --> 29:44.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Survivors take stock of the situation. 29:46.100 --> 29:47.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Local veterinarian Keith Johnson, 29:47.933 --> 29:49.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% joins friends to look 29:49.133 --> 29:50.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% for people in need of help. 29:51.633 --> 29:53.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Keith] Stan Lieberman showed up 29:53.100 --> 29:56.166 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% with a boat right here on the West 29:56.166 --> 29:58.000 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% side of Bennet Clarkson Hospital 29:59.633 --> 30:02.566 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% and Bill Groethe was there 30:02.566 --> 30:05.166 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% so the three of us were in his boat 30:06.200 --> 30:07.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and thought we'd do 30:07.400 --> 30:10.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% what we could to find some survivors. 30:11.566 --> 30:14.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So basically that's got us to this point 30:14.033 --> 30:15.600 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% where, 30:15.600 --> 30:16.800 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% uh... 30:16.800 --> 30:19.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we did see this Matthew Vanderbeek. 30:19.200 --> 30:22.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] Matthew Vanderbeek is 14 years old. 30:22.400 --> 30:24.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% His father, mother, and brother 30:24.200 --> 30:26.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% have died in the flood, 30:26.000 --> 30:28.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% leaving him as the family's soul survivor. 30:29.633 --> 30:31.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Keith] Hanging in a tree, 30:31.300 --> 30:33.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% shivering and shaking 30:33.100 --> 30:35.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and worried about his family 30:35.366 --> 30:37.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% more than anything else. 30:37.266 --> 30:38.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% But they, 30:38.233 --> 30:40.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% his family got into a boat 30:40.233 --> 30:43.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and the family perished. 30:43.033 --> 30:43.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% But uh... 30:43.966 --> 30:45.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the house stayed intact 30:45.366 --> 30:46.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% if they'd stayed with the house. 30:48.166 --> 30:49.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% This is the upper branches and 30:52.666 --> 30:55.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% sure he went by various trees 30:55.133 --> 30:55.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% trying... 30:57.000 --> 30:58.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% to find his, 30:58.600 --> 30:59.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to get outta the water. 30:59.600 --> 31:00.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% But uh... 31:01.600 --> 31:02.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% he managed to get, 31:04.533 --> 31:05.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% get up in that tree 31:05.433 --> 31:07.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and was hanging on. 31:13.466 --> 31:15.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] Robby Corner takes shelter for the night, 31:15.533 --> 31:18.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with others in a house high above the creek, 31:18.400 --> 31:20.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% hoping his mother has survived. 31:20.833 --> 31:22.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The flood surrounded her home. 31:22.833 --> 31:23.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% - First light, 31:23.666 --> 31:24.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% my friends and I, 31:24.600 --> 31:25.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% we walked outta the house 31:25.800 --> 31:27.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and down to the edge of the highway 31:27.733 --> 31:28.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and looked over. 31:28.666 --> 31:29.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And we could see that uh... 31:31.133 --> 31:33.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% if you get rid of that carport, 31:33.433 --> 31:35.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% basically what we were looking at from up there 31:35.733 --> 31:37.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% was what you're looking at right here. 31:37.666 --> 31:41.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% There is just not a single board left of the house. 31:41.433 --> 31:43.100 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Um... 31:43.100 --> 31:44.433 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And so, 31:44.433 --> 31:45.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% you know, 31:45.266 --> 31:46.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we really didn't know 31:46.233 --> 31:47.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% what happened to anybody. 31:47.066 --> 31:48.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Strangely enough, 31:48.033 --> 31:49.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that house never got hit. 31:49.400 --> 31:50.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And so what happened was 31:50.500 --> 31:52.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% it kicked a wall out, 31:52.333 --> 31:53.533 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% um... 31:53.533 --> 31:55.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but the house remained there. 31:55.066 --> 31:56.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 31:56.566 --> 31:57.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% So again, 31:57.700 --> 31:59.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the speculation is that nothing 31:59.233 --> 32:00.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% floated down and hit it, 32:00.566 --> 32:03.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but I'm sure where this house was located here, 32:03.500 --> 32:05.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there was a lot of houses coming down, 32:05.266 --> 32:06.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% hitting you know, 32:06.200 --> 32:07.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% one house hitting another house 32:07.533 --> 32:08.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and so on and so forth 32:08.966 --> 32:12.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and everything getting knocked off its foundation. 32:12.400 --> 32:13.833 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Um... 32:13.833 --> 32:15.333 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% So, 32:15.333 --> 32:16.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% I had a neighbor that was renting 32:16.700 --> 32:18.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% a house right over here at the time. 32:18.966 --> 32:20.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And he was, 32:20.566 --> 32:22.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% he had walked out here from town 32:22.166 --> 32:24.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to see what was going on with his place. 32:24.466 --> 32:26.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And so... 32:26.300 --> 32:27.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% we said, 32:27.300 --> 32:28.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "Well let's walk into Rapid City 32:28.133 --> 32:29.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and see what's going on 32:29.500 --> 32:30.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and see if you know, 32:30.666 --> 32:32.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we can get to a telephone or something 32:32.066 --> 32:33.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% to let... 32:33.600 --> 32:35.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% my sister know, 32:35.100 --> 32:36.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% try to let my sister know 32:36.166 --> 32:37.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% what was my situation 32:37.566 --> 32:40.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and my relatives that lived here in Rapid. 32:40.133 --> 32:41.000 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Um... 32:41.000 --> 32:42.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So we walked into town 32:42.133 --> 32:43.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and it was, 32:43.100 --> 32:43.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% you know, 32:43.933 --> 32:45.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% it was just a nightmare. 32:45.233 --> 32:48.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% There was fish laying all over the highway 32:48.133 --> 32:49.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% from Canyon Lake 32:49.233 --> 32:50.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and the creek. 32:53.366 --> 32:55.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So one of the friends I was 32:55.000 --> 32:56.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% with was Steve Mills. 32:56.266 --> 32:57.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so we walked over to his house. 32:57.433 --> 32:59.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He lives near Steven's High School, 32:59.366 --> 33:00.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and it was up you know, 33:00.900 --> 33:03.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% away from any flooding or anything. 33:03.000 --> 33:04.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And the telephones worked and so forth. 33:04.866 --> 33:08.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So I called up to my uncle's house 33:08.233 --> 33:09.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% up on Frontier drive. 33:09.500 --> 33:10.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And I told him, 33:10.333 --> 33:11.200 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% I said, 33:11.200 --> 33:12.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "Here's where I am. 33:12.033 --> 33:12.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And do you know 33:12.966 --> 33:13.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% what's going on with my sister?" 33:13.900 --> 33:15.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And they had heard from her 33:15.500 --> 33:17.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and she was alive. 33:17.166 --> 33:18.333 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Um... 33:18.333 --> 33:19.966 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And so, 33:19.966 --> 33:21.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% but I couldn't, 33:21.100 --> 33:22.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I hadn't heard anything about my mother. 33:22.333 --> 33:24.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Well probably about, 33:25.933 --> 33:28.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I dunno, 4 or 5:00 PM that day 33:28.133 --> 33:28.966 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% um... 33:30.833 --> 33:34.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% my uncle's neighbor from up on Frontier drive 33:34.000 --> 33:35.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% came over to Mill's house. 33:35.100 --> 33:36.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Cause he knew where we were 33:36.533 --> 33:37.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to pick me up and take me up 33:37.633 --> 33:39.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to my aunt and uncles. 33:39.800 --> 33:41.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And he said you know, 33:41.266 --> 33:44.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "They found your mom a little bit earlier 33:44.900 --> 33:48.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and she'd washed a number of miles down the creek. 33:48.233 --> 33:49.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% They found her body. 33:53.533 --> 33:54.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Narrator] Dave Baumberger 33:54.633 --> 33:57.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% is about two miles downstream. 33:57.266 --> 33:59.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The house he's in breaks apart 33:59.266 --> 34:02.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% sending nine people into the water. 34:02.066 --> 34:03.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Dave] I got out at the mainstream 34:03.866 --> 34:04.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and off to the side 34:04.900 --> 34:06.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and there was a pickup stranded 34:06.800 --> 34:08.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% with a family in it. 34:09.666 --> 34:10.500 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 34:11.400 --> 34:12.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I couldn't pull myself 34:12.700 --> 34:14.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% into the back end of the pickup. 34:14.233 --> 34:16.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% They were in the box. 34:16.166 --> 34:17.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% And... 34:17.300 --> 34:18.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I finally, 34:18.433 --> 34:20.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% they got me drug in over 34:20.300 --> 34:22.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the side somehow or another. 34:22.200 --> 34:24.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And so until the water receded, 34:24.633 --> 34:27.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we stayed in the back end of that pickup. 34:27.833 --> 34:29.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It was me and one of the, 34:29.600 --> 34:31.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% one of the boys from the family 34:31.333 --> 34:33.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% that survived that night 34:33.333 --> 34:34.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and seven died. 34:36.766 --> 34:38.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Ron and LaVonne Masters 34:38.600 --> 34:40.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and their daughter Karen 34:40.266 --> 34:42.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% hold onto trees in the water 34:42.000 --> 34:45.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% all night after their car is submerged. 34:45.000 --> 34:46.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% They've seen two year old Timothy 34:46.833 --> 34:49.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% swept away by the current. 34:49.000 --> 34:50.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They fear the same has happened 34:50.633 --> 34:52.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to their other children, 34:52.066 --> 34:55.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Steven, Joanne and Jonathan. 34:55.033 --> 34:56.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I heard a voice under my feet. 34:56.766 --> 34:58.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I couldn't believe I heard a voice. 34:58.233 --> 35:01.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so I laid my cheek in the water 35:01.433 --> 35:03.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I spoke up to the window 35:03.366 --> 35:04.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and I said 35:04.200 --> 35:05.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% "Who is it? 35:05.033 --> 35:06.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Who is it?" 35:06.666 --> 35:07.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And Joanne, 35:08.366 --> 35:10.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% was how old at that time? 35:10.066 --> 35:11.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - She was eight. - She was eight. 35:11.233 --> 35:12.733 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% - Eight. 35:12.733 --> 35:13.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Came floating right across - I thought she was 10. 35:13.900 --> 35:15.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - She was 10. and came right up... 35:15.066 --> 35:16.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - She was 10, Ron. - And looked in my eyes. 35:16.066 --> 35:16.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - She was 10. - She was 10. 35:16.866 --> 35:17.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - I'll never forget 35:17.666 --> 35:18.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the look in her eyes 35:18.200 --> 35:19.433 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% like... 35:19.433 --> 35:21.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Cause she thought she was the only one left. 35:21.366 --> 35:22.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - Cause her two brothers 35:22.300 --> 35:23.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% had died beside her. 35:23.966 --> 35:26.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - They had suffocated, - They had suffocated. 35:26.066 --> 35:27.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The funeral director told us 35:27.466 --> 35:30.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there was no water in their lungs at all. 35:30.533 --> 35:33.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - My sister actually had to move them 35:34.600 --> 35:36.133 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% when they died. 35:36.133 --> 35:38.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So she has her own story to tell, 35:38.333 --> 35:39.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% but she had to 35:39.333 --> 35:40.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% move them aside. - But she tried 35:40.133 --> 35:41.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% to talk to them. 35:41.733 --> 35:42.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - They talked for a while - But they didn't answer. 35:42.733 --> 35:44.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Yeah they talked for awhile 35:44.000 --> 35:45.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then they didn't answer back. 35:45.800 --> 35:47.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But one of them was sitting. 35:47.833 --> 35:49.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I don't know that scout had a, 35:49.400 --> 35:50.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% had seats on the side. 35:50.333 --> 35:51.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And one was sitting there, 35:51.266 --> 35:52.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% she actually had to move him 35:52.600 --> 35:54.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% so that she could keep her feet. 35:54.000 --> 35:56.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Cause she was in a wall of water 35:56.266 --> 35:58.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or the water was like up to here to her 35:58.700 --> 36:01.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and she just had her head up at the ceiling. 36:01.566 --> 36:02.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And that's the way - And there wasn't 36:02.866 --> 36:03.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% enough air... - She lived more many hours. 36:03.800 --> 36:05.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Well there wasn't enough air 36:05.466 --> 36:07.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% for three of them to survive. 36:07.666 --> 36:08.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - No. - There was only 36:08.800 --> 36:11.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% enough air for one - For one. 36:11.066 --> 36:13.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Our little two year old son 36:13.166 --> 36:14.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that had floated all the way 36:14.566 --> 36:15.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% through Rapid City 36:15.433 --> 36:16.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and was found clear out 36:16.700 --> 36:19.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% where the Open Bible church is now. 36:19.433 --> 36:21.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Do you know where it is out East? 36:21.000 --> 36:23.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He was caught up in a tree up there. 36:23.200 --> 36:25.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And the only way he was identifiable 36:25.166 --> 36:27.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% was his little Minnesota Twins jacket 36:27.833 --> 36:29.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that LaVonne had put on him 36:29.366 --> 36:30.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% before we went to left off. 36:30.966 --> 36:32.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [LaVonne] I don't think you ever get over it. 36:32.700 --> 36:34.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Ever, ever, ever. 36:34.866 --> 36:37.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Because they're part of you 36:37.366 --> 36:40.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and to lose a child is probably 36:40.000 --> 36:43.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the most traumatic of any death. 36:45.600 --> 36:47.133 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - [Narrator] Tom Haggerty listens 36:47.133 --> 36:48.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% helplessly through the night 36:48.800 --> 36:50.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to screaming in his neighborhood. 36:52.466 --> 36:53.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% In the morning he walks 36:53.766 --> 36:55.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to his father's business. 36:55.400 --> 36:57.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Haggerty's department store 36:57.133 --> 37:00.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% near the creek in central Rapid City. 37:00.066 --> 37:03.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Tom] Basically our store was that size, 37:03.366 --> 37:05.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% not quite as wide, 37:05.100 --> 37:07.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% but the entire front 37:07.100 --> 37:10.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of that building was glass panels. 37:10.266 --> 37:12.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So it was a huge glass front 37:12.766 --> 37:13.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% on that's where, 37:13.800 --> 37:16.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and all the glass was gone. 37:16.066 --> 37:19.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And the parking lot of course was full of mud. 37:19.566 --> 37:21.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% It was full of broken 37:21.633 --> 37:24.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% fixtures from the store. 37:25.300 --> 37:27.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% When I walked through the front, 37:27.933 --> 37:29.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% which used to be, 37:29.166 --> 37:31.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% you know a wall of windows, 37:31.900 --> 37:33.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% there was about... 37:33.400 --> 37:35.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% two to three feet of mud 37:35.400 --> 37:36.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% in the store 37:36.733 --> 37:38.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and everything was gone. 37:38.300 --> 37:41.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean it was a 40,000 square foot store 37:41.166 --> 37:43.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and there was no merchandise left visible 37:43.566 --> 37:45.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% except what happened to be mounted 37:45.533 --> 37:46.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% up on the walls above 37:46.766 --> 37:48.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% about a five, six foot level. 37:48.933 --> 37:52.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% There's still some product hanging up there. 37:52.200 --> 37:54.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But everything else was just, 37:55.033 --> 37:55.866 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% mud. 37:55.866 --> 37:57.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 37:57.400 --> 38:00.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% my dad and his main employees 38:00.233 --> 38:02.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% were standing in front of 38:02.266 --> 38:04.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the store and just kind of 38:04.866 --> 38:06.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% this helpless look on their face. 38:06.900 --> 38:09.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Like what do we do? 38:09.000 --> 38:10.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Kay Schriever escapes 38:10.400 --> 38:11.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% rising flood water 38:11.500 --> 38:13.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and runs up a fire escape 38:13.466 --> 38:15.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% into the multi-story Rushmore building 38:15.700 --> 38:18.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% just West of downtown Rapid City. 38:18.400 --> 38:21.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I ran literally ran into 38:21.033 --> 38:21.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% because it was dark. 38:21.900 --> 38:23.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Couldn't see anything. 38:23.100 --> 38:25.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I just felt my way down the hall. 38:25.500 --> 38:27.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I ran into some people 38:28.833 --> 38:30.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and um... 38:30.000 --> 38:31.333 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% it was, 38:31.333 --> 38:32.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the people that were 38:34.166 --> 38:36.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% from the radio station 38:36.266 --> 38:37.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% that was here. 38:37.766 --> 38:40.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And they had move it up to that floor. 38:40.700 --> 38:42.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Or maybe they were on that floor. 38:42.500 --> 38:43.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I don't know, 38:43.333 --> 38:44.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% cause I'd never been in 38:44.366 --> 38:46.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the building or anything. 38:46.133 --> 38:47.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And um... 38:47.366 --> 38:49.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there was I know at least one lady 38:49.366 --> 38:51.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% cause she was, 38:51.066 --> 38:52.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% trying to comfort me. 38:52.266 --> 38:55.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I told her that my friends were out here, 38:55.166 --> 38:56.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% you know, 38:56.000 --> 38:56.833 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% help. 38:56.833 --> 38:58.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% You know, 38:58.100 --> 38:59.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% my friends were out here and everything. 38:59.400 --> 39:00.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And I don't remember 39:00.566 --> 39:01.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% if she came with me or not. 39:01.933 --> 39:02.866 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% But like I said, 39:02.866 --> 39:05.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I went in and out a few times. 39:05.500 --> 39:07.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Five teens with Kay Schriever 39:07.400 --> 39:08.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% are trapped by the flood. 39:09.800 --> 39:12.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Ed Healy and Gayle Nemeti 39:12.000 --> 39:15.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% die when the wall of a nearby store blows out. 39:15.533 --> 39:16.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% The other three, 39:16.600 --> 39:18.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Mike Faust, Randy Shacklett 39:18.733 --> 39:21.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and John Dengis are swept downstream. 39:21.766 --> 39:22.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - But I lucked out 39:22.700 --> 39:24.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and I shot down almost to, 39:24.666 --> 39:26.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I went down basically about 39:26.433 --> 39:28.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% where Founders park is right now. 39:28.933 --> 39:29.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And the current starts 39:29.966 --> 39:32.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% pulling me back into the stream. 39:32.733 --> 39:34.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Well I managed to grab 39:34.100 --> 39:36.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% one of those big Oak trees there 39:36.366 --> 39:39.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I was hanging on for dear life. 39:39.366 --> 39:41.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And literally this is the truth. 39:41.833 --> 39:43.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The current was so strong. 39:43.800 --> 39:45.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I had slip on boots, 39:45.266 --> 39:46.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% like beetle boots or something 39:46.633 --> 39:49.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the water completely stripped me 39:49.166 --> 39:51.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% from the waist down. 39:51.233 --> 39:53.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So when they found me the next day, 39:53.033 --> 39:55.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I was basically naked from the waist down, 39:55.800 --> 39:58.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but my t-shirt had stretched down so much. 39:58.366 --> 39:59.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% It was down to my knees. 39:59.500 --> 40:00.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So it was like a dress. 40:00.666 --> 40:03.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% John was swept all the way down 40:03.500 --> 40:04.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to buy where the packing 40:04.800 --> 40:06.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% plant bridge is down there. 40:06.400 --> 40:07.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And he was caught up 40:07.433 --> 40:08.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in the bridge and debris. 40:08.900 --> 40:10.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And somebody he told me, 40:10.200 --> 40:11.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% threw him a rope, 40:11.633 --> 40:12.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but he couldn't pull 'em out 40:12.933 --> 40:13.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% because of the current 40:13.900 --> 40:14.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the debris and stuff. 40:14.966 --> 40:16.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So he literally said 40:16.266 --> 40:18.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% this guy hooked this rope up 40:18.033 --> 40:19.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to a car or truck or something 40:19.700 --> 40:21.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and pulled him through. 40:21.100 --> 40:23.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] Randy Shacklett's body was found later, 40:23.700 --> 40:25.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% farther downstream. 40:26.200 --> 40:28.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Among the six teens in Mike Faust's car 40:28.533 --> 40:30.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on the night of the flood, 40:30.233 --> 40:32.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% three died and three lived. 40:33.733 --> 40:35.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Arlene Mattis spends the night 40:35.600 --> 40:37.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% moving from one piece of 40:37.000 --> 40:39.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% floating debris to another. 40:39.066 --> 40:40.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% She ends up on a floating house 40:40.733 --> 40:42.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that wedges against some trees 40:42.866 --> 40:44.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% surrounded by the flood. 40:44.566 --> 40:46.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Arlene] And then my husband said, 40:46.300 --> 40:47.600 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% "Well." 40:47.600 --> 40:48.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% He looked and he saw 40:48.866 --> 40:51.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there was an attic window right below. 40:51.266 --> 40:52.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And he knocked that out 40:52.766 --> 40:54.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and we all crawled in there. 40:54.433 --> 40:56.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So it was warmer. 40:56.733 --> 40:57.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And so that's where we spent 40:57.766 --> 40:59.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the rest of the night then. 40:59.000 --> 41:02.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then I don't know what time it was, 41:02.600 --> 41:04.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but I stayed real close to the window 41:04.633 --> 41:05.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and I would holler, 41:05.733 --> 41:06.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% you know, "Help," 41:06.566 --> 41:07.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% every once in a while. 41:07.733 --> 41:09.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And every time I hollered help, 41:09.166 --> 41:12.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% you could hear help all the way down, 41:12.700 --> 41:13.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% far away you know, 41:13.900 --> 41:16.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% people wanting help. 41:16.000 --> 41:18.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And we stayed there until, 41:20.666 --> 41:22.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% oh I don't know if it was getting light. 41:22.166 --> 41:23.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I think it was still pretty dark. 41:24.633 --> 41:26.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And we heard a boat. 41:26.366 --> 41:28.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Somebody was coming with a boat 41:28.733 --> 41:30.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and they went by 41:30.000 --> 41:31.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and we hollered at 'em and they said, 41:31.600 --> 41:32.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% well that they would, 41:33.766 --> 41:34.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% just stay here. 41:34.600 --> 41:35.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% We'll be back. 41:35.833 --> 41:38.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then they came back and got us. 41:38.200 --> 41:39.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Denny Bohls spends the night 41:39.800 --> 41:42.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% standing on a display counter 41:42.000 --> 41:43.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in the flooded A and B Welding 41:43.500 --> 41:46.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% supply store where he works. 41:46.066 --> 41:48.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Denny and a coworker helped rescue 41:48.033 --> 41:50.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% a woman and her two daughters. 41:50.200 --> 41:51.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% They spend the night in 41:51.466 --> 41:53.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the flooded store and all survive. 41:53.733 --> 41:54.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% - Pretty much, 41:54.900 --> 41:55.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% pretty much had destroyed our building. 41:55.966 --> 41:58.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We only had one standing wall. 41:58.133 --> 42:00.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% All the merchandise inside was lost. 42:01.766 --> 42:03.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% A lot of that the next day 42:03.500 --> 42:04.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% after we, 42:04.566 --> 42:06.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% after I got home. 42:06.000 --> 42:07.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I had cut my finger pretty bad. 42:07.533 --> 42:08.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% My thumb that is, 42:09.533 --> 42:10.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I got home and got cleaned up 42:10.666 --> 42:11.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and got something to eat. 42:11.600 --> 42:13.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And got a ride back down here. 42:13.833 --> 42:16.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We started looking for the owner of the company, 42:16.066 --> 42:17.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Harold Elliott, 42:17.666 --> 42:19.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% cause he was missing. 42:19.300 --> 42:21.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And we didn't find him at all. 42:21.900 --> 42:24.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We did see the neighbors that we had let in. 42:25.900 --> 42:27.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We saw them the next day, 42:27.533 --> 42:28.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% they were okay. 42:28.966 --> 42:32.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But Harold had lost his life in flood. 42:32.100 --> 42:35.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (mournful piano music) 42:36.466 --> 42:37.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - [Narrator] In 1972, 42:37.933 --> 42:40.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there are two hospitals in Rapid City. 42:40.600 --> 42:43.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% One of them Bennett Clarkson is flooded. 42:43.800 --> 42:45.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% For several days hundreds of injured 42:45.900 --> 42:48.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% people are brought to St. John's McNamara. 42:49.400 --> 42:51.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Sharon Weber is a nurse 42:51.233 --> 42:53.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the manager of the emergency department. 42:53.900 --> 42:56.233 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% - At the emergency entrance 42:56.233 --> 42:58.066 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% there was a big canopy across 42:58.066 --> 42:59.300 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% that connected over to 42:59.300 --> 43:00.400 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% the nursing home, 43:01.800 --> 43:03.366 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% nurses home. 43:03.366 --> 43:04.800 align:left position:40% line:5% size:50% And... 43:04.800 --> 43:07.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% one of the doctors and a nurse 43:07.000 --> 43:10.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% was assigned to be out there on triage 43:10.000 --> 43:11.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and tell 'em whether to come into the ER 43:11.900 --> 43:13.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% or where to go you know. 43:13.466 --> 43:15.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Whether to go across the street, 43:15.600 --> 43:17.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% where they were keeping people in. 43:18.433 --> 43:20.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% If they were deceased, 43:20.600 --> 43:21.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the doctor checked them 43:21.566 --> 43:22.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and told them to go, 43:22.533 --> 43:23.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% which morgue to go to, 43:23.700 --> 43:24.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And that. 43:24.800 --> 43:27.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And it was a foggy 43:27.000 --> 43:28.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% dreary spooky night. 43:28.566 --> 43:29.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% It was just a... 43:29.833 --> 43:33.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I still have that eerie feeling from that night. 43:34.100 --> 43:35.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But then we worked and we worked 43:35.733 --> 43:37.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and were worked on people. 43:37.200 --> 43:40.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% A lot of kids came in that needed tetanus shots 43:41.966 --> 43:44.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and we sewed up lots of lacerations. 43:44.400 --> 43:46.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Some were in their night clothes 43:46.600 --> 43:47.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and uh... 43:48.800 --> 43:50.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% some their clothes were 43:50.800 --> 43:52.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% muddy and wet 43:53.500 --> 43:54.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and just I... 43:54.433 --> 43:55.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I can still see the faces 43:55.900 --> 43:58.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of some of those just scared to death. 44:00.133 --> 44:01.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Ozzie Osheim works at 44:01.233 --> 44:04.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the flooded Catron Funeral home. 44:04.133 --> 44:05.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He goes to help the morning after 44:05.566 --> 44:08.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% the flood at the Campbell Paula funeral home. 44:08.933 --> 44:10.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Ozzie] Well it was chaos. 44:11.500 --> 44:12.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% You can imagine. 44:12.766 --> 44:16.300 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% Now in the course of a normal year, 44:16.300 --> 44:17.666 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% the three funeral homes in town 44:17.666 --> 44:19.500 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% at that time would probably handle 44:19.500 --> 44:22.133 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% plus or minus around 300 funeral homes, 44:22.133 --> 44:23.333 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% excuse me, 44:23.333 --> 44:25.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 300 funerals between the three firms. 44:25.000 --> 44:26.466 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Now overnight, 44:26.466 --> 44:27.300 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% or say 44:28.966 --> 44:30.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% from day one 44:30.100 --> 44:31.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% until the body, 44:31.300 --> 44:33.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% last body was found, 44:33.100 --> 44:34.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% you had 238 cases. 44:35.900 --> 44:37.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% There were only 11 licensed 44:37.366 --> 44:38.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% funeral directors on staff 44:38.533 --> 44:40.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% at the three funeral homes. 44:40.666 --> 44:42.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And fortunately the funeral profession 44:42.766 --> 44:44.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% responded beautifully 44:44.766 --> 44:46.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% within the next number of days. 44:47.633 --> 44:49.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We had approximately 55 funeral directors 44:49.666 --> 44:50.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% from five, 44:50.933 --> 44:53.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% from Rapid City, the Black Hills region, 44:53.400 --> 44:55.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the state of South Dakota, 44:55.066 --> 44:56.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and about a five state region, 44:56.800 --> 44:58.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% about 55 funeral directors 44:58.533 --> 45:01.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% came in and volunteered their time to assist us. 45:01.500 --> 45:03.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Within a couple of days. 45:03.166 --> 45:05.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The Catron funeral home where Ozzie Osheim works 45:05.900 --> 45:07.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% is back and running 45:07.466 --> 45:09.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and receiving bodies. 45:09.633 --> 45:11.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [Ozzie] Obviously there weren't enough tables 45:11.533 --> 45:13.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in which to place everyone 45:13.033 --> 45:14.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% up off the ground. 45:14.966 --> 45:17.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So we neatly put sheeting 45:17.433 --> 45:19.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and blanketing on the floor. 45:19.566 --> 45:21.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And as a body was prepared 45:21.633 --> 45:23.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that had brought to the building 45:23.733 --> 45:26.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and brought downstairs was properly cleaned. 45:26.833 --> 45:29.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Bathed, embalmed. 45:29.200 --> 45:30.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Then the body was placed on 45:32.000 --> 45:34.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the unidentified section of the garage. 45:34.200 --> 45:36.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% When the public came to identify their loved one, 45:38.133 --> 45:39.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% we had nurses on duty. 45:39.700 --> 45:41.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% We had clergy on duty 45:41.166 --> 45:43.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to help those who might need medical help, 45:43.833 --> 45:45.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the help those who needed... 45:46.100 --> 45:49.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% physical support. 45:49.033 --> 45:51.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% But the families would be taken into the garage. 45:51.533 --> 45:53.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% One family at a time, 45:53.900 --> 45:55.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% usually just one or two of 45:55.100 --> 45:57.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the family members would come in with us. 45:57.533 --> 45:59.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% A staff member 45:59.300 --> 46:00.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% would go with them. 46:01.666 --> 46:02.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% If the body was identified, 46:02.966 --> 46:04.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% it was properly marked, 46:04.866 --> 46:07.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and placed in the identified section. 46:08.633 --> 46:10.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Kay Schriever is asked to identify 46:10.300 --> 46:13.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the body of her friend Gayle Nemeti. 46:13.100 --> 46:14.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - [Kay] And um... 46:15.533 --> 46:16.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% she was... 46:20.033 --> 46:22.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on the floor in the garage. 46:25.833 --> 46:26.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And it was her. 46:28.666 --> 46:29.500 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% But... 46:32.466 --> 46:34.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% she wasn't all messed up or anything. 46:34.900 --> 46:35.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I was so thankful. 46:37.900 --> 46:40.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I just saw like... 46:40.666 --> 46:43.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% bruises on the side of her face. 46:43.466 --> 46:44.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And you know, 46:44.300 --> 46:46.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% she was a muddy mess, 46:46.233 --> 46:47.066 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% but... 46:48.100 --> 46:49.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% she was all there. 46:51.333 --> 46:52.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And so I just thought, 46:52.500 --> 46:53.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% felt to my heart that, 46:56.200 --> 46:58.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I hope she didn't suffer a lot. 46:58.866 --> 47:02.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% (mournful orchestral music) 47:02.500 --> 47:05.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - The three funeral homes realized very shortly 47:05.066 --> 47:06.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% that they couldn't, 47:06.333 --> 47:07.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% it was going to be almost impossible 47:07.900 --> 47:09.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to have a full funeral service 47:09.900 --> 47:11.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% for each and every family. 47:12.500 --> 47:13.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So the three funeral homes sat down 47:13.966 --> 47:15.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with the ministerial associations 47:15.566 --> 47:17.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that were here in town at the time. 47:17.933 --> 47:20.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And it decided that they would offer 47:20.866 --> 47:23.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% graveside services only. 47:23.100 --> 47:25.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Not full services with a church service 47:25.133 --> 47:27.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or a service in the chapel. 47:27.200 --> 47:29.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Most families were content with that plan. 47:31.766 --> 47:34.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Once one of us had sat down with the family, 47:34.700 --> 47:35.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% took care of, 47:35.933 --> 47:36.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we would take care of all the paperwork 47:36.966 --> 47:38.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% for the death certificates 47:38.400 --> 47:40.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and all the legal data. 47:40.333 --> 47:43.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We would schedule a time for the service. 47:43.033 --> 47:46.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And then in cooperation with the cemeteries, 47:46.000 --> 47:47.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% one certain funeral home 47:47.233 --> 47:50.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% would schedule their services on the hour. 47:50.033 --> 47:50.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% The second funeral home 47:50.966 --> 47:51.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% would schedule their services 47:51.800 --> 47:53.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% on the quarter hour. 47:53.233 --> 47:54.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And the third funeral home 47:54.166 --> 47:55.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% would schedule their services 47:55.033 --> 47:56.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% on the half hour. 47:56.400 --> 47:58.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So that we were all jammed together 47:58.166 --> 47:59.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% at the same time, 47:59.033 --> 47:59.866 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% trying to... 48:01.466 --> 48:02.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Made it easier for the cemeteries 48:02.833 --> 48:04.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to accommodate everyone. 48:05.466 --> 48:06.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Narrator] Some of the bodies 48:06.400 --> 48:08.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% are not easily identified. 48:08.566 --> 48:09.400 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% Dentists, 48:09.400 --> 48:11.066 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% including Gerry Harms 48:11.066 --> 48:14.133 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% use dental records to make identifications. 48:14.133 --> 48:16.066 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% - When people drowned, 48:16.066 --> 48:17.733 align:left position:30% line:5% size:60% they bloat. 48:17.733 --> 48:19.800 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% And you cannot recognize them. 48:19.800 --> 48:21.266 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% So uh... 48:21.266 --> 48:22.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I took care of a lot of 48:22.433 --> 48:23.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the people down there. 48:23.600 --> 48:26.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% One of my best friends was down there. 48:26.000 --> 48:28.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He and his wife and son drowned that night. 48:28.466 --> 48:29.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% But anyway, 48:31.933 --> 48:33.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I got all my dental records out, 48:33.700 --> 48:35.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% cause that's the only way 48:35.033 --> 48:38.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% you can find out specifically who people are. 48:38.433 --> 48:40.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And so uh... 48:40.433 --> 48:42.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% they had a 18 wheel trailer 48:42.466 --> 48:44.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% there at the morgue. 48:44.700 --> 48:46.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They kept bringing people in 48:47.433 --> 48:48.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and you know, 48:48.366 --> 48:49.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% if I thought I knew something 48:49.900 --> 48:51.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% about who they were or whatever, 48:53.300 --> 48:55.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% then I'd get their records out. 48:55.033 --> 48:56.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 48:56.100 --> 48:58.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% it was just a terrible ordeal. 48:59.466 --> 49:00.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] James Whitehead flies 49:00.900 --> 49:04.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% a National Guard helicopter into the wreckage, 49:04.000 --> 49:05.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% retrieving bodies. 49:05.500 --> 49:07.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - That's the only way we could, 49:07.066 --> 49:09.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% we could get into some of these places, you know. 49:09.200 --> 49:11.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Especially down by Baken Park. 49:11.533 --> 49:12.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% That was a, 49:12.766 --> 49:14.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that was really a lot of mess down there. 49:14.633 --> 49:16.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And uh... 49:16.666 --> 49:18.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% people wrapped around trees 49:18.233 --> 49:19.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and of course all the... 49:20.300 --> 49:21.133 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% bushes 49:21.133 --> 49:22.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and brush and limbs 49:22.300 --> 49:23.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and stuff was piled around em'. 49:23.533 --> 49:24.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% I mean you just, 49:24.366 --> 49:25.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% you literally had 49:25.300 --> 49:26.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to pull 'em out of there. 49:26.933 --> 49:28.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% You know because they're, 49:28.366 --> 49:30.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% entangled in there so much. 49:31.466 --> 49:33.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I remember this one 18 year old girl, 49:33.500 --> 49:35.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I'm sure she was about 18 years old. 49:35.400 --> 49:37.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% She had her leg completely tore off 49:38.833 --> 49:40.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and uh... 49:40.533 --> 49:42.233 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% it was, 49:42.233 --> 49:43.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% it was bad. 49:43.700 --> 49:44.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% You couldn't even imagine 49:44.900 --> 49:46.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% what it looked like. 49:46.266 --> 49:47.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% You couldn't even imagine. 49:47.600 --> 49:49.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I mean it looked like... 49:49.800 --> 49:51.000 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% The... 49:51.000 --> 49:53.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% World War II when they bombed in series, 49:53.233 --> 49:54.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% you know, 49:54.066 --> 49:56.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and all the destruction. 49:56.666 --> 49:57.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - [Narrator] City workers spend 49:57.733 --> 49:59.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the days after the flood, 49:59.066 --> 50:01.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% repairing badly damaged utilities, 50:01.866 --> 50:03.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% they look for survivors 50:03.500 --> 50:04.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and count the dead. 50:05.466 --> 50:07.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Two days after the flood, 50:07.100 --> 50:08.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Mayor Don Barnett calls 50:08.733 --> 50:10.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% a meeting of the city council. 50:10.700 --> 50:12.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - We got the council together 50:12.733 --> 50:15.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% in a small room in the courthouse. 50:15.100 --> 50:17.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It had one little light bulb on the wire 50:17.600 --> 50:19.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and we were sitting around the table, 50:19.666 --> 50:22.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% but the reporters weren't there yet. 50:22.033 --> 50:24.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I had told him about the meeting 50:24.033 --> 50:27.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you just can't have meetings in South Dakota 50:27.000 --> 50:29.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% without the reporters in attendance. 50:29.433 --> 50:30.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And they were on the way, 50:30.933 --> 50:32.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% but we got to talking 50:32.000 --> 50:33.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to this federal employee 50:33.966 --> 50:35.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and he wanted to bring the muscle 50:35.766 --> 50:37.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of the federal government in 50:37.700 --> 50:42.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and repair about 700 mobile home pads. 50:42.233 --> 50:45.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They had been located in mobile home camps 50:45.566 --> 50:47.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or parks they called them. 50:47.966 --> 50:48.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% But they had, 50:48.833 --> 50:50.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% they were all damaged. 50:50.566 --> 50:52.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They were undercut with water 50:52.233 --> 50:53.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% and mud and crap 50:53.566 --> 50:55.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and sewer lines were broken. 50:55.433 --> 50:57.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Water lines were broken. 50:57.166 --> 50:58.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% The power was out. 50:58.466 --> 51:00.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The telephone poles were on the ground. 51:00.866 --> 51:03.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% It was just like war. 51:03.900 --> 51:05.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And so he said, 51:05.500 --> 51:07.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "I need authority from the council 51:07.666 --> 51:09.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to use federal money, 51:09.200 --> 51:14.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% to repair those 700 mobile home site locations." 51:14.933 --> 51:15.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Leonard Swanson had been 51:15.933 --> 51:18.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% with the city since 1947 51:18.533 --> 51:20.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and he was public works director. 51:20.533 --> 51:22.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% He said, "No!" 51:22.400 --> 51:24.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Just real sharp like that. 51:24.600 --> 51:25.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And he said, 51:25.833 --> 51:30.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "The council and the city cannot permit 51:30.266 --> 51:33.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the reoccupation of the flood plain, 51:34.100 --> 51:37.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because that would endanger so many lives." 51:37.966 --> 51:38.900 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And he said, 51:38.900 --> 51:41.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "We should never sentence, 51:41.100 --> 51:44.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Like a judge was sentenced you to the gallows? 51:44.733 --> 51:46.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% We should never sentence 51:46.700 --> 51:49.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% the flood survivors 51:49.400 --> 51:50.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to one more night 51:50.900 --> 51:53.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% on the suicidal flood plain. 51:53.600 --> 51:54.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And Kay was there, 51:54.666 --> 51:56.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% my administrative assistant 51:56.100 --> 51:57.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and she wrote that down 51:57.866 --> 51:59.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and then I repeated it 51:59.733 --> 52:01.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and then she repeated it 52:01.666 --> 52:04.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and Swanee broke down in tears. 52:04.300 --> 52:07.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And Dr. Lytle was president of the city council 52:07.333 --> 52:08.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and deputy mayor. 52:08.800 --> 52:09.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% And he said, 52:09.633 --> 52:11.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "I think Swanee's right! 52:11.966 --> 52:14.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We should not permit the federals 52:14.066 --> 52:16.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to repair those mobile home parks. 52:16.666 --> 52:18.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Maybe nobody should repair 52:18.300 --> 52:20.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% their homes near the creek. 52:20.566 --> 52:21.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So he made a motion 52:21.700 --> 52:23.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and low and behold, 52:23.100 --> 52:26.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% all 10 councilmen adopted that policy. 52:26.700 --> 52:30.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We did not buy all of the land near the creek, 52:30.400 --> 52:32.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% but we certainly purchased 52:32.333 --> 52:35.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% all of the residential land by the creek 52:35.333 --> 52:37.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then had a relocation program 52:37.800 --> 52:40.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% when the HUD people out of Denver 52:40.000 --> 52:43.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% granted Rapid City 48,000,000. 52:43.733 --> 52:46.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And we used that to buy, 52:46.700 --> 52:50.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the places where 1500 families had lived. 52:50.800 --> 52:53.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we converted that to an open space park. 52:53.966 --> 52:55.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% That's five miles long 52:55.733 --> 52:57.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and five blocks wide 52:57.600 --> 52:59.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% all the way through town. 52:59.533 --> 53:02.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Now when we have high water again in Rapid City, 53:02.700 --> 53:05.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% those parks will be damaged. 53:05.366 --> 53:07.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But they won't be damaged 53:07.100 --> 53:10.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to the tune of 700 destroyed mobile homes 53:10.600 --> 53:13.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and over a thousand wooden homes, 53:13.433 --> 53:15.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% because now it's golf course 53:15.566 --> 53:17.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% about 18 miles of hiking trails 53:17.766 --> 53:19.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and biking trails 53:19.166 --> 53:21.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and soccer fields 53:21.033 --> 53:23.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and so many recreational things. 53:23.200 --> 53:26.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And that flood plain park makes Rapid City 53:26.633 --> 53:29.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% one of the most beautiful cities in America. 53:29.266 --> 53:32.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But with all this growth in Rapid City now, 53:32.300 --> 53:34.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they're growing East, West, North, and South. 53:34.966 --> 53:37.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% My God they're gonna pull Rapid City 53:37.166 --> 53:39.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% into Mead county here before long 53:39.600 --> 53:41.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and clear to the air base. 53:41.300 --> 53:45.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Box Elder was a mobile home park when I was mayor 53:45.000 --> 53:48.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and now is an American South Dakota city. 53:48.633 --> 53:51.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And all of that growth will turn around 53:51.566 --> 53:54.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and put pressure on the council to 53:54.366 --> 53:58.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% again reoccupy the beautiful flood plain 53:58.333 --> 54:02.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with residential housing of all varieties. 54:02.000 --> 54:04.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And as long as I'm alive, 54:04.100 --> 54:06.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'll be at those public hearings 54:06.433 --> 54:08.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to remind the people 54:08.066 --> 54:11.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% about the stupidity of the planning 54:11.133 --> 54:15.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the zoning and the bad land use patterns 54:15.200 --> 54:17.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% that were in place at 5:00 54:17.466 --> 54:20.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% on June 9th in the evening hours. 54:20.533 --> 54:22.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Because by 5:00 AM 54:22.733 --> 54:24.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% they weren't there anymore. 54:25.500 --> 54:28.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (gentle guitar music) 54:45.700 --> 54:50.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ You were 72 on June the 9th ♪ 54:50.000 --> 54:51.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ When the rain that fell ♪ 54:51.500 --> 54:54.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ Made the water rise ♪ 54:54.600 --> 54:58.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% ♪ Canyon Lake lost its dam that night ♪ 54:58.333 --> 55:03.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ And took all of it higher ♪ 55:04.666 --> 55:09.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% ♪ They found him on Jackson Boulevard ♪ 55:09.366 --> 55:13.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% ♪ Ankle deep in their own front yard ♪ 55:13.400 --> 55:14.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ They prayed to God ♪ 55:14.666 --> 55:17.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ Their car could start ♪ 55:17.466 --> 55:22.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% ♪ And they went for higher ground ♪ 55:23.400 --> 55:25.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ If I ever learned ♪ 55:25.000 --> 55:28.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ a thing from my father ♪ 55:28.766 --> 55:30.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ Its to never fear ♪ 55:30.133 --> 55:33.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ Hell or high water ♪ 55:33.600 --> 55:38.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% ♪ Even when there's problems all around ♪ 55:39.366 --> 55:40.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ You just look ♪ 55:40.333 --> 55:43.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ for the higher ground ♪ 55:43.233 --> 55:46.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (gentle guitar music) 55:59.100 --> 56:00.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ I remember the lies ♪ 56:00.966 --> 56:03.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ that people swore ♪ 56:03.833 --> 56:05.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ turning from love ♪ 56:05.100 --> 56:08.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ to brandish their swords ♪ 56:08.033 --> 56:09.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ I remember you stood ♪ 56:09.333 --> 56:12.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ without saying a word, ♪ 56:12.366 --> 56:17.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% ♪ Hey you took the higher ground ♪ 56:18.566 --> 56:20.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ Cause if I ever learned ♪ 56:20.066 --> 56:23.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ a thing from my father ♪ 56:23.633 --> 56:24.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ It's never fear ♪ 56:24.733 --> 56:28.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ Hell or high water ♪ 56:28.233 --> 56:29.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ Cause even when ♪ 56:29.200 --> 56:34.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ there's problems all around ♪ 56:34.066 --> 56:35.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% ♪ You just look ♪ 56:35.033 --> 56:38.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ♪ for the higher ground ♪ 56:38.500 --> 56:42.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% (gentle guitar music fades)