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On. we threw our cats in a suitcase and we hand a suitcase full of cats and the kids and we just go. >> susan jones was at home with three children and a dog when her house began going under water. >> it was very scarey. i will have to say that we were evacuated right here on a boat. so that was very scary. because my husband was out of town. and it was just me and my three kids and my dog, who doesn't swim. >> now the clean-up begins. >> we've taken out the rugs, that was what we were told, to rip out the carpet. that's all this over here and then the rugs. to try to help the mildew. >> in th...

On. we threw our cats in a suitcase and we hand a suitcase full of cats and the kids and we just go. >> susan jones was at home with three children and a dog when her house began going under water. >> it was very scarey. i will have to say that we were evacuated right here on a boat. so that was very scary. because my husband was out of town. and it was just me and my three kids and my dog, who doesn't swim. >> now the clean-up begins. >> we've taken out the rugs, that was what we were told, to rip out the carpet. that's all this over here and then the rugs. to try to help the mildew. >> in th...

Trainer by the waist and started shaking her violently and her shoe, the last thing i saw was her shoe floating. and sirens started. >> reporter: crowds that gathered for the show were cleared out. the park manager at seaworld says the trainer drowned. an expert with the orca network who studies whales tells tilikum has been known to be aggressive and doesn't swim with other trainers. tilikum's role in the show is to simply splash the audience, using his massive tail. howard garrett says the whale's lack of companionship may have triggered this attack. >> you put a highly social mammal like an...

Has always known to be aggressive and doesn't swim with other trainers. his role in the seaworld show is simply to splash and soak the audience using his massive trail. orca network's howard garrett said the whale's lack of companionship may have triggered this attack. >> when you put a highly social mammal like an orca into captivity for long periods, they have nothing. they have no stimulation. they have no companionship. and that can tend to create stress. >> reporter: in fact, parkgoers say the whales at earlier shows wednesday appeared stressed and stopped obeying commands. >> we have nev...

Ti tilikum actually grabbed the trainer. >> it the trainer said, oh, yeah, they're giving him a belly rub, he really likes that. i could tell, you could tell by the huge fence. >> reporter: the whale isle believed to be the largest orca in captivity. his fins alone measure more than six feet. the eyewitness said when the trainer who was not in the water gave the go-ahead, the whale took off. >> just took off really fast. came around the glass. jumped up and grabbed the trainer around the waist and started shaking her violently and they are shoe fell. silence immediately. >> reporter: the crowd...