Sidell, LA: "...the water was over our heads"

[Modem Butterfly]

http://www.2theadvocate.com/cgi-bin/printme.pl

"I looked up from the kitchen floor where I was working and our couch floated by," Irias said. "Water was pouring through the door like someone opened a floodgate."

Irias and his wife, Gloria, began gathering some of their possessions: a television, DVD player, CD player and family photographs. They ran into a back bedroom with their family treasures and threw them on a bed they recently purchased.

"Then I noticed the bed started floating off of the frame," Irias said. "I told my wife, 'We need to go. Grab what you need.' "

But by now, they couple was standing in chest-deep water.

"I braced both feet against the wall and pulled as hard as I could but the door wouldn't open," Efrain Irias said. "I couldn't believe the water rose that fast. It seemed like there was a thousand pound weight on the other side."

[uppityperson]

1. sounds like the tsunami surge also

crap