Back in May of 2001 we got 9 in of rain on a Sun. afternoon-the creek was over the blacktop in front of our house. The downstairs phone would not work so I went upstairs to see if that phone would work-looked out the window a saw a car in the ditch by the bridge-all you could see was the top 1 foot of the car. I ran downstairs and out to the blacktop. I could only get about 100 ft from the car so I got my JD tractor out and hooked it to my gooseneck flatbed trailer-just as I was going down the lane to the blacktop luck would have it, my son and neighbor were coming from the other way in the neighbors 1 ton flatbed truck-they jumped on the back of the trailer and I backed down into the ditch against the car. We chained the car to the trailer so it would not float away and pulled the 2 people throuh the window onto the trailer. They were 2 large elderly people-they saw the water over the road but thought they could drive through it-the car was washed off the road-they were sitting there with the lights still on and the wipers still going! Everybody was glad I saw them for the water was still rising. My wife asked what she should do to help-when I seen my son and the neighbor I said GRAB THE VIDEO CAMERA-she taped it and it made all the the tv stations in ne Iowa. Our local post master sent the infor. to the Iowa Governor and the next Aug. we got the Governors life saving award on stage at the Iowa State Fair! Everything turned out ok except while we were saving the 2 people the water backed up into our basement and floated our freezer which in turn tipped over and spilled everything into the water! O WELL
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