Thanks to a tweet that went viral, three generations of a North Carolina family have been rescued from hurricane waters.
Breeanna Perry told KDVR she was watching TV on Thursday night in her New Bern home, when she put her feet on the ground and felt water.
The waters rose within minutes, she said, and soon, Perry and her mother and grandmother huddled in their attic to escape.
Perry said she called 911 for help, but city resources were jammed.
Then, at about 1:30 a.m. Friday, the family had lost power — and Perry used the last of her phone battery to send out a desperate tweet.
“If anybody could help… our car is under water and so is our house. Stuck in the attic. Phone is about to die. Please send help,” she wrote, including her address.
Her SOS was shared over 10,000 times and liked more than 6,000 times.
“I sent the tweet. I didn’t expect it to go viral,” she said.
By 6 a.m. the family was rescued by Louisiana’s famed “Cajun Navy” and they made their way to a Kinston hotel north of their city. That hotel started to flood Saturday morning and they were trying to find a place to stay, according to the outlet.
A friend of Perry’s started a GoFundMe page to raise money for the family, saying they lost “their home, clothes, cars and all their personal belongings” in the storm.
Hundreds of people had to be rescued from the coastal city over Friday and Saturday, local authorities said.