A 62-year-old great-grandmother, who was killed along with her four grandchildren, tried her hardest to save them all from a devastating flash flood in Texas.
The family of Lenda Asberry said she did everything she could to save her four great-grandchildren, before they were killed in a flood, according to KHOU.
Asberry was in her home with her grandchildren, nine-year-old Venetia Asberry, eight-year-old Devonte Asberry, seven-year-old Von Anthony Johnson Jr and six-year-old Jamonika Johnson, when heavy rains led to a flash flood in the area.
The flood waters rose quickly as Asberry got the children out of the home in an attempt to get to safety.
‘She made it out of the house with those babies, all four of em,’ Toya Johnson, Asberry’s daughter, told KHOU.
Johnson, who is also the aunt of the children, said authorities told the family the water had risen up to Asberry’s neck, as she struggled to get to safety.
She told the station that a ‘tide of water’ became ‘too much pressure for her with all those kids’ and moments later they were all swept away in the waters.
Kwanae Johnson, the mother of the children, cried hysterically as family members comforted her as she grieved.
‘Lord, you took four babies from me, and God, I don’t know what to do,’ she said during an interview with KHOU. ‘They were my heart.’
Asberry was known to almost everyone as Miss Peaches. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
Captain James Muniz of the Palestine Police Department told CBS46 that the water ‘was up to the roofline of the homes and that’s what prevented the people from being able to get away’.
‘The water just came up too fast.’
More than 7 inches of rain fell in less than half an hour on Friday night.
Muniz said that six to 10 homes in a Palestine cul-de-sac were severely damaged following the heavy rainfall.
All other residents of the cul-de-sac were accounted for, he said.
City crews found the five bodies near one of the homes before dawn after the floodwaters had receded.
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