(NewsNation) — In Cambridge City, Indiana, Tessa West had less than an hour to leave her home. She watched the water climb her staircase, then climbed out a window onto her roof, where a passing boat picked her up.
Brooke Boomershine had less warning. She looked away from her phone for a few minutes and found water at her front door. It reached her refrigerator soon after, and she fled with her husband and six children, leaving behind nearly everything they owned.
Indiana flood victim on home loss: ‘I just need somebody to take care of me’…