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            <p>DICKINSON, Texas &ndash; A dramatic viral image of elderly residents trapped in waist-deep water in a Texas nursing home amid catastrophic flooding resulted in those patients being rescued.</p><p>The photo was taken inside the La Vita Bella home in Dickinson, near Houston.</p><p>The photo was tweeted just before 9am by Tim and Kim McIntosh, nearly 1,000 miles away in Tampa, with a desperate plea for help. Kim told 10News her mother owns the facility. The family lived in San Antonio prior to moving to the Tampa area about a year ago, she said.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">La vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson Texas is almost underwater with nursing home patients <a href="https://t.co/oCNkrgoRZY">pic.twitter.com/oCNkrgoRZY</a></p>&mdash; Timothy J. McIntosh (@DividendsMGR) <a href="https://twitter.com/DividendsMGR/status/901805509950541825">August 27, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>&quot;This morning I texted (my mother) to see if they were okay and she texted this photo back and said that the water was basically waist high and they needed help,&quot; Kim McIntosh told 10News by phone Sunday night.</p>      <div class="ad ad_border_true ad_position_article_mid1" id="article_mid1_0" data-model-refresh="none" data-model-settings="{&quot;ad&quot;:{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;article_mid1&quot;,&quot;div&quot;:&quot;article_mid1_0&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[300,250]]},&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;pgid&quot;:[&quot;468298999&quot;],&quot;pgtype&quot;:[&quot;article&quot;],&quot;strnativekey&quot;:[&quot;2YNEkKMk1QC5WsCndTXLDYVB&quot;],&quot;video_included&quot;:[&quot;true&quot;],&quot;ttid&quot;:[&quot;2702333&quot;]}}"></div>
<p>She says her mother had made arrangements at nearby hotels but was told to not evacuate and instead shelter in place.</p><p>&quot;She could&rsquo;ve easily left and she was told not to,&quot; Kim McIntosh said. &quot;She would&rsquo;ve evacuated in a minute if she had thought that they were in danger.&rdquo;</p><p>The McIntosh's quickly determined their best hope to get help would be to post the photo online.</p><p>&ldquo;I was afraid they were all drowning,&quot; McIntosh said. &quot;My husband has a Twitter account so he went ahead and tweeted out the picture, thinking that someone would see it maybe nearby there and boat to get them.&quot;</p><p>The tweet took off, quickly going viral, garnering nearly 3,000 re-tweets.</p><p>&quot;We were desperate, desperate to get someone there and given we couldn&rsquo;t get through to anybody I felt nobody was listening,&quot; she said.</p><p>By a little after noon, the residents were rescued.</p><p>Some were quick to question the authenticity of the photo.</p><p>&quot;That was heartbreaking to us,&quot; McIntosh said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s horrible when you know something is true and you&rsquo;re just trying to get help and people don&rsquo;t believe you.&rdquo;</p>      <div class="ad ad_border_true ad_position_article_mid2" id="article_mid2_0" data-model-refresh="none" data-model-settings="{&quot;ad&quot;:{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;article_mid2&quot;,&quot;div&quot;:&quot;article_mid2_0&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[300,250],[1,1]]},&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;pgid&quot;:[&quot;468298999&quot;],&quot;pgtype&quot;:[&quot;article&quot;],&quot;strnativekey&quot;:[&quot;2YNEkKMk1QC5WsCndTXLDYVB&quot;],&quot;video_included&quot;:[&quot;true&quot;],&quot;ttid&quot;:[&quot;2702333&quot;]}}"></div>
<p>The Galveston Office of Emergency Management confirmed Sunday afternoon that it had rescued the residents from the facility.</p><p><a href="http://www.galvnews.com/news/free/article_e1ffff8e-435d-5c78-ab46-57d6bc7dc6a5.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share">The Galveston Daily News reports </a>15 seniors citizens were rescued.</p><p>&ldquo;Thank you to the National Guard &amp; the Galveston City Emergency crew for our rescue&rdquo; Timothy McIntosh tweeted.</p><p>He went on to tweet, &ldquo;Thanks to all the true believers that re-tweeted and got the news organizations involved. It pushed La Vita Bella to #1 on the priority list.&rdquo;</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">RESCUED!! Thank you to the National Guard &amp; the Galveston City Emergency crew for our rescue; <a href="https://twitter.com/GalvestonOEM">@GalvestonOEM</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/houstonflood?src=hash">#houstonflood</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NationalGuard">@NationalGuard</a></p>&mdash; Timothy J. McIntosh (@DividendsMGR) <a href="https://twitter.com/DividendsMGR/status/901854734109331456">August 27, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>                    <div class="copyright">&#169; 2018 WTSP</div>

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