It is the story of fear, leaving and being trapped in ways no one expects. This is why no one should wait for the last minute when fate is the only power at work.
September 18, 2018
By Theoden Janes
It's hard to make out (click here) in the thicket of trees maybe a hundred yards to the north of Highway 218, but it's there: a Hyundai Elantra, hanging nose down, as if caught in a spiderweb.
By mid-morning on Monday, as the sun peeked out for the first time since Florence came in from the coast late last week, the field of soybeans between the road and the strung-up sedan looked as if someone had simply left a sprinkler system on too long....
...The powerful current then swept the car over the flooded field and into the trees, police said. Once it was lodged in place, Lee worked her way out of the driver's seat and freed Kaiden from his child seat. By that point, most of the car was under water.
"As I understand it, she can't swim," Cathey said. "She was able to get out herself, but she couldn't get her feet on the ground.
"The water was still over her head, and she was just struggling."
Through sobs, not long after she was plucked from the river, Lee told a reporter for Fox Charlotte: "I was holding his hand, trying to hold him, trying to pull him up. And it got to the point I couldn't hold on anymore - and he let go."...
