Similar scenes have played out across Houston as high winds, heavy rains and floods brought by Harvey sweep across the southeastern part of the state: a moment of terror and a desperate attempt to try to reach safety.
A woman and her 18-month-old daughter were traveling Tuesday on a highway service road in Beaumont, about 85 miles east of Houston, when the vehicle hit high waters, police told the Associated Press.
Authorities said that the mother pulled into a parking lot, got out and grabbed her young child.
First responders found them Tuesday afternoon - the toddler clinging to her mother - floating toward a railroad trestle, police said in a statement.
Capt. Brad Penisson, with the fire-rescue department in Beaumont, told the Associated Press that a witness saw the mother carrying her child, apparently trying to get them to drier ground when water rushing from an overflowing drainage canal swept them away.
"Water was up to the trestle and first responders would not have been able to save the child if they had floated under it," police said in the statement. "Officers pulled the child and the mother into the boat."
Rescuers performed CPR on the mother but could not revive her. Authorities said Tuesday that the mother died.
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A woman and her 18-month-old daughter were traveling Tuesday on a highway service road in Beaumont, about 85 miles east of Houston, when the vehicle hit high waters, police told the Associated Press.
Authorities said that the mother pulled into a parking lot, got out and grabbed her young child.
First responders found them Tuesday afternoon - the toddler clinging to her mother - floating toward a railroad trestle, police said in a statement.
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Capt. Brad Penisson, with the fire-rescue department in Beaumont, told the Associated Press that a witness saw the mother carrying her child, apparently trying to get them to drier ground when water rushing from an overflowing drainage canal swept them away.
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"Water was up to the trestle and first responders would not have been able to save the child if they had floated under it," police said in the statement. "Officers pulled the child and the mother into the boat."
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Rescuers performed CPR on the mother but could not revive her. Authorities said Tuesday that the mother died.
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(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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