VIDEO: Locals Help Rescue Father and Children After Their Car Flipped During Flash Flood

It’s wonderful to see people helping each other out! It gives you faith in humanity.

We should all try to be of use as long as we live!

This is a story about love and hope.

According to Viral 4 Real, the flood was too strong that they couldn’t open the car door.

Myrtle Springs, Texas—Phillip Ocheltree and his children were on their way home when tornadoes and a storm had hit the area and their car slid uncontrollably on the wet surface of a road. The floods were so strong that they car flipped and his children were trapped inside. He couldn’t open the door to save them. But as he was starting to lose hope, a band of heroes came to their rescue.

Locals in the area joined in in saving them. Several people helped each other in forcing the doors open, while others helped in getting the children out.

Apparently, the baby was already suffocating and was close to being unconscious. The infant needed immediate medical attention and first aid treatment. Thankfully, the band of rescuers performed CPR on her and saved the infant’s life.

His Facebook post read: “I can’t thank you all enough who came into the water and saved my children. You’re a blessing thank you all so much.”

According to Wikipedia, a flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields.

Flash floods may occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as a man-made dam, as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from regular floods by a timescale of less than six hours.

The water that is temporarily available is often used by foliage with rapid germination and short growth cycles, and by specially adapted animal life.

flash floods can occur under several types of conditions. Flash flooding occurs when it rains rapidly on saturated soil or dry soil that has poor absorption ability. The runoff collects in gullies and streams and, as they join to form larger volumes, often forms a fast flowing front of water and debris.

Flash floods most often occur in normally dry areas that have recently received precipitation, but they may be seen anywhere downstream from the source of the precipitation, even many miles from the source. In areas on or near volcanoes, flash floods have also occurred after eruptions, when glaciers have been melted by the intense heat.

Flash floods are known to occur in the highest mountain ranges of the United States and are also common in the arid plains of the Southwestern United States. Flash flooding can also be caused by extensive rainfall released by hurricanes and other tropical storms, as well as the sudden thawing effect of ice dams.

Human activities can also cause flash floods to occur. When dams fail, a large quantity of water can be released and destroy everything in its path.