Barry Adelman recounted his harrowing experience during the central Texas floods, which forced his family to seek refuge in the attic of their home.
He said he received multiple emergency alerts starting at 1 a.m. CT and the first floor was fully submerged by 4 a.m.
Adelman detailed their desperate efforts to stay safe, including tying Christmas tree lights to the chimney in case they needed to escape the attic onto the roof.
“My grandson, Cole, he said, ‘Papa, we’re going to die! Papa, we’re going to die! I think we’re going to die, Papa! Are we going to die?’ And I said to him, as best I could, I looked him in the face, and I don’t know how I manufactured this, but I smiled, and I said, ‘We are going to be OK, do not worry. Everything is going to be fine; we will be safe,’” Adelman said.
“But inside I was completely terrified, just trying to maintain a cool head, trying to find things that floated, trying to have the next step of evacuation in our minds,” he told CNN.
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