Austin – It is difficult not to feel the heart pain when seeing the images that come out of the last catastrophic floods along the Guadalpe River. But for some, it stimulates more. This was true for Kindra Wright, the Central Texas, and was in 1987 a camp coach in the Stewart camp during the 1987 Flood.
The meteorologist Christine Corrie spoke with Wright about her story, feelings, and words for those who bear a shock that she knows directly. Below is a copy of its conversation. Amendments were made for clarity.
Meteorological expert Christine Curie, KXAN News: The floods of the Independence Day that we have seen in the center of Texas raises many of the memories of the previous tragic floods that we have seen in our backyard, and we know that we have many survivors who can witness over the scary of that moment. Join me today is Kendra Wright. Kindra, talk to me about your story. You are one of the survivors of the 1987 flood in that region, right?
Kendra Wright, 1987 survivors: I was a coach at the Stewart Steen Camp in the summer of 1987. On one night, I was out with some friends from the camp, and the sky was raining, of course, rain, but we were bypassing the low water crossing that we had to go to reach the camp. It was very high for us to go, and I think that the foot, or anything else. It was just a very little height. So we called the camp and said: “My God, we fear that we will miss the curfew.” That was our fear. It was not like, “Oh, we will be a catastrophic flood.” As you know, we were really afraid of the curfew.
I saw: So we called, and these men who had this giant capture were like, we will come to you. He hit the water wall while coming, and one of them returned to the road, perhaps half an hour, after 45 minutes, in the boxers, all his clothes. I don’t know how to tear your clothes in a flood, but I mean, it was crazy. It was like, my God. I rushed. I went to the river, it is floating on the river, and it is like, but “Where is Nile, the other man?” I was like, “Well, we don’t know, where is it?” We called the camp, there was no, and we discovered that it was in The river. Thus we started screaming for him, and he was screaming, “I am in the Dang tree.”
I saw: So Neil was in that tree all night, and there was a house on the side of the river, and they said that we could have some blankets. I was wearing soak [clothes]. We were all drowned, so we wore blankets and wore garbage bags, and we stood outside the night screaming to Nile, “Someone is coming, someone is coming. The helicopters will be here.” The next morning, that helicopter came, and they had to leave very quickly, because the same helicopter that saved my friend was forced to go and save a bus of children in that church bus.
I saw: It gives me chills even to talk about it. They only have many people who love them, who never met them, and at least the people I know, no one thinks of anything but gratitude to anyone who cares about anyone during this flood, and anyone in any part, I know that there are a lot of heroes, and I do not want … We have done our best. I will not have anything to say except everything will be fine, and it will take a lot of time, which is just an impossible situation. “
Korean: Kendra, thank you very much for sharing your story, to share your heart with all our viewers. We really appreciate that.
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