Grandma saved from Kentucky floods thanks to viral pic dead at 97

A Kentucky grandmother who was saved from her flooded house in July thanks partially to a viral picture displaying her sitting on her mattress in waist-deep water has died at age 97, relations stated.

Mae Amburgey died on Oct. 8 in her sleep on the house of her son in Chelsea, Alabama, the place she had been staying as a result of she was unable to return to her flood-damaged home in Whitesburg, Kentucky, relations instructed the Lexington Herald-Chief.

“I consider she died of a damaged coronary heart,” the girl’s granddaughter Missy Amburgey Crovetti instructed the newspaper. “I believe if it hadn’t been for the flood, if she hadn’t suffered that trauma, I believe she would have nonetheless been with us.”

Amburgey Crovetti wrote in an replace on a GoFundMe web page that she had initially launched to assist restore her grandmother’s house that the nonagenarian “put up one heck of a struggle” since her dramatic rescue.

The viral picture that helped save Mae Amburgey in the course of the flooding in Kentucky.

Fb / Missy Amburgey Crovet

Amburgey’s household stated she died in her sleep at her son’s house in Alabama Oct. 8.

Fb / Missy Amburgey Crovet

The girl’s granddaughter, Missy Amburgey Crovetti (above), stated her grandmother died “of a damaged coronary heart” ensuing from the trauma of the flood.

Fb / Missy Amburgey Crovet

“Whereas our hearts are utterly damaged we're additionally relieved that she is now not in ache,” the granddaughter acknowledged. “The previous few days she had been praying for the Lord to carry her house, she is house now.

“She was an unbelievable pressure who introduced love, mild, and kindness to everybody she met.”

Amburgey Crovetti instructed the Herald-Chief that her grandmother was not absolutely conscious of her viral fame ensuing from the picture taken in late July inside her waterlogged house as floods ravaged japanese Kentucky.

The granddaughter instructed Fox Climate on the time that Grandma Mae tried to name for assist, however nobody was answering, so Amburgey Crovetti posted the picture on Fb “out of desperation.”

Amburgey was unable to maneuver again into her Whitesburg, Kentucky, house as a result of it had been nearly destroyed by the floodwaters.

Fb / Missy Amburgey Crovet

The picture rapidly went viral, and Amburgey and her son Larry have been rescued from the floodwaters, as seen in a video.

The 97-year-old was taken to a hospital and recognized with pneumonia, whereas her son Larry inhaled water and ended up on a ventilator.

Amburgey was finally discharged and despatched to a nursing house to proceed her restoration, however she couldn't transfer again into her beloved house, which has been rendered unlivable.

The official dying toll from the flash floods in Kentucky has now reached 43, Gov. Andy Beshear stated throughout a press convention final week.