friends and family telling them i'm all right. >> reporter: what did you see in the families and the community around you, how they responded to this once the storm passed? >> they were all upset. a lot of them lost their homes. some even lost their families and members and, you know, my heart goes out to all those people. >> reporter: do you know that people will come together and find their way back? >> that's what i'm praying for, that's what i'm hoping for. >> reporter: it's amazing, you foe what this looked leak yesterday before the storm? >> unbelievable. i cannot even fathom this. >> reporter: thank god you are okay. your family is okay. you have a place to stay, we keep hearing from the mayor, everybody says the same thing, you will be back here in walk? >> yes, i will. >> reporter: thank you for your story and the presence of mind to shoot that video and to get downstairs where you belonged in a horriblization situation like that. that's the situation here in washington. we will keep bringing you back here and tell you the story of