Mae Amburgey saved from flooded Kentucky home thanks to viral photo

This image ended up being a lifesaver.

An aged lady caught inside her Japanese Kentucky house as floods ravaged the realm was saved after her granddaughter posted a picture to social media of her sitting in a bed room, surrounded by waist-deep water.

Mae Amburgey, 98, tried to name for assist however “no person was answering,” her granddaughter, Missy Crovetti, advised Fox Climate. 

98-year-old Mae Amburgey was saved from her flooded house after an image of her in misery went viral.

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“Out of desperation,” Crovetti turned to Fb, posting the picture of Amburgey inside her Whitesburg house “with hope in [her] coronary heart.” The picture quickly went viral. 

A video of Amburgey’s rescue exhibits a security group wading by means of neck-deep water, simply ft from her house’s roofline. 

Amburgey is “banged up fairly exhausting” however doing “remarkably nicely” within the hospital and is “decided to go house,” Crovetti mentioned.