Flooding Devastates Garland Homes Near Creek
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter
GARLAND(CBSDFW.COM) -Residents along Duck Creek are moving both muck and keepsakes. Most days the creek behind the homes is barely a trickle, according to one resident. But overnight it went up more than 30 feet to swamp homes and send people fleeing for their lives.
The raging torrent was no respecter of title or status. Ask Councilman Billy Mack Williams.
"I was walking in the den. All of a sudden, 'Kaboom!' The back doors come open in my house. And water just rolled in like a river."
He and his wife fled to their attic just as water snapped off the end of the attic ladder.
We were in the attic about 2-1/2 hours trying to just hope and pray it would go down. And sure enough in it finally---we could watch it on the wall going up and down," says Williams.
The flooding overnight into Friday morning shows the creek rose more than 30 feet just to get to his yard. Tthen it rose another three feet in the home. Williams bought the house after the big flood of 1991. He says enough is enough, he plans to move.
Tonya Bouchard's daughter and son-in-law live across the street. "It makes me so sad," says Bouchard. "I almost fainted, seriously."
Fortunately they were in no danger. They weren't home. Bouchard is preparing them for the worst.
"They were watching their (friends') dog, so actually was a godsend they weren't here," says Bouchard.
The water was so powerful it moved a piece of heavy furniture across the room...and so capricious it left a fragile liquor table unmoved.
(©2015 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)