A Florida resident waded into chest\u002Dhigh floodwaters to search for a stranger\u0027s mom after seeing the daughter\u0027s pleas on social media.
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Bomlitz had no way to contact her mom, Shirley Affolter, who lost her cellphone before the storm. Then her landline went down. With nowhere to go, she hunkered down for the night. Before the storm, an evacuation vehicle had missed her on its route.Cheynne Prevatt, 26, had sustained damage to her own home during the storm. But the Florida resident waded into chest-high floodwaters to search for Affolter.
When Prevatt walked through the door, there was relief. The woman was alive and safe. Prevatt said: “I didn’t know who she was, but she was really kind of surprised to see me.”
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