Waverly, Tennessee, a woman transmitted the floods shortly before her life took over

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“They’re flooding us right now,” he says as water pushes debris through a door. “It’s really scary.”

It was the last video he appeared to post on his Facebook page. According to his son, the flood would claim his life.

Almond Bryant, 55, was one of at least 18 people killed by Saturday’s flooding in Middle Tennessee, including his hometown of Waverly, about an 80-mile drive west of Nashville. Among Waverly’s dead were also 7-month-old twins.
More than 270 homes were destroyed – some uprooted – due to flooding caused by heavy rains, officials said this week.

Almond Bryant’s 70-second video and the later story of her son, who was with her, help bring together some of her last moments.

Rune can be seen Monday in the brush of a stream that rose to deadly levels over the weekend in Waverly, Tennessee.

The son says the mother got lost after the water took them to a destroyed house

In the video, a man’s voice says he thinks something has come home.

“That’s scary,” he says, and about ten seconds later he exclaims, “Oh, God. Oh, God!”

She and her son finally found themselves in the water.

His son, Thomas Almond, reminded CNN on Tuesday that he and his mother were hanging from one side of the house for 30 minutes on Saturday as water rushed around them.

Then a different, evicted house that was on fire came towards them. They decided to let them go, and the water carried them away, he told CNN.

More than 270 homes were destroyed in central Tennessee as heavy flooding killed 18 people, according to officials

The running water took them to another evicted house, which had come to rest against a gas station.

“We touched the corner of the house and, while I touched it, it dragged us both below,” Almond told CNN. “And I was probably under thirty to forty, I don’t know seconds.

“And I went out here, and I looked around, I called for my mother a couple of times. But I didn’t see her … I knew I had to fight for myself.”

He said the current carried him down a bend to another building, where he climbed onto the roof and remained there for four hours until he was rescued, but his mother failed to do so, he said.

Up to 15 inches of rain had fallen in the area over a six-hour period, officials said.

Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis took a helicopter trip this week to study the destruction and began to cry when he described what he saw.

“You’ve seen us get a little excited about this,” Davis said Tuesday in tears. “We have to remember: they are people we know. They are families of people we know. They are people we grew up with. They are just people from our small county. And it’s very close to us.”

Hundreds of homes are affected by the floods in some way, Davis said. “We have people at home who had water up to their knees and up to their waists, that now the water has shrunk,” he said.

CNN’s Nadia Romero, Steve Almasy and Aya Elamroussi contributed to this report.

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