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Yesterday, going over every detail of the house. certified it safe structurally sound and habitable as is. my uncle and i ironically have studied it closely ourselves. we've started thinking about a few things we would like to do as the next step for the next one. >> neil: like what? >> well, you know, the bottom floor was designed as break-away. it was normal 2 x 4 sheetrock and siding construction on the ground floor. it was swept away like any other construction that was at ground level. but what that left was a hole. when the stairs were torn away, the elevator was parked at that level. it...

Rose, thank you for joining us. i know that everything is so hard right now. tell us, what is life like for you and the family? >> it's devastating. life as we know it is gone. there's nowhere you can walk without rubble and walk mig dog i have to be careful every step she takes. we can't even get out of where i live because the debris piled up so high that they have to do the more important search-and-rescue before they can help the people that are stuck. >> how bad is the house? >> we've got some roof damage, siding, broken windows. the bottom floor was totally flooded to waist high. we've l...

She takes. we can't even get out of where i live because the debris piled up so high that they have to do the more important search-and-rescue before they can help the people that are stuck. >> how bad is the house? >> we've got some roof damage, siding, broken windows. the bottom floor was totally flooded to waist high. we've lost everything in our cabinets. there was two inches of mud on the bottom of the floors that we had to clean up. it took us two days to get the floor to where we could walk on it. it was pretty bad. >> you think you guys can stay there or as soon as you can you'll have ...

Who would have thought that could have happened that fast. i think he went downstairs and was going to try to secure it and do something with it -- >> it went from just rain residue to probably flood stage in 10, 15 minutes at the most. it went from zero to however high it got, the bottom floor of my house. >> reporter: are you scraped? >> i'm cut and scraped and everything else. i'm alive, i'm alive. >> reporter: you are alive. >> i finally got word to her by satellite radio. she was so happy. >> reporter: did you cry? >> oh, yes. >> reporter: what's next? what are you able to salvage from yo...

Surgery. she tries to take care of everybody. she's a good christian woman. she thought she could get through this because the house did fine during opal, the statistics were basically the same. i wasn't here then and i took her word for it. by the time i realized we were in a big mess, but by then it was too late. i knew if we tried to drive out, we would have got caught by the water. we had to do what we did. >> reporter: the only way to get around is walking. i've just been walking and walking and walking as far as i can. i saw a home that was carried from the water's edge, i was talking to...