The elderly women rescued from a flooded senior home in Texas are now out of harm’s way.
The residents of the La Vita Bella facility in Dickinson were pictured under better circumstances since they were last seen trapped in chest-high water as Harvey battered coastal Texas. And this time, they were warm, dry and smiling.
Soldiers with the state’s National Guard evacuated 15 of the drenched women — some of whom are suffering from dementia — by floating them out of the facility on mattresses. Their ages range from 59 to 99.
“The house was pretty much underwater,” a National Guard captain told the Houston Chronicle, declining to be identified.
Four of the women were taken to a local hospital, according to the Galveston Daily News.
By the time a photo of the underdressed women went viral on social media, the group had been taken to another facility in the nearby town of Alvin to wait out the tropical storm.
La Vita Bella owner Trudy Lampson said she snapped the heart-wrenching photo hoping that it was hasten their rescue as water began spilling out of the toilets and into the nursing home, according to the Chronicle.
Lampson said she returned to the flooded facility on Monday to rescue the cat pictured toward the back of the room in her photo.
As dire as the situation seemed in the viral photo, Lampson said her residents were laughing off the rising waters.
“It was happy. It was funny. You had to laugh, because if you didn’t laugh you’d have to stand there and cry,” she told the Galveston paper.
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