Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Mae Amburgey saved from flooded Kentucky home thanks to viral photo

By Irie Sentner

This picture ended up being a lifesaver.

An elderly woman stuck inside her Eastern Kentucky home as floods ravaged the area was saved after her granddaughter posted an image to social media of her sitting in a bedroom, surrounded by waist-deep water.

Mae Amburgey, 98, tried to call for help but “nobody was answering,” her granddaughter, Missy Crovetti, told Fox Weather

Mae Amburgey
98-year-old Mae Amburgey was saved from her flooded home after a picture of her in distress went viral. twitter via @ShawnRenoylds

“Out of desperation,” Crovetti turned to Facebook, posting the photo of Amburgey inside her Whitesburg home “with hope in [her] heart.” The image soon went viral. 

A video of Amburgey’s rescue shows a safety team wading through neck-deep water, just feet from her home’s roofline. 

Amburgey is “banged up pretty hard” but doing “remarkably well” in the hospital and is “determined to go home,” Crovetti said. 

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