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	<p>STRANDED nursing home residents were saved after an online photo went viral.</p>
<p>The pensioners were shown amid rising floodwater at care home La Vita Bella in Dickinson, Texas. One woman was even knitting as water levels rose above waist height. </p>
<p>The home&rsquo;s owner Trudy Lampson sent a photo to her daughter Kim McIntosh and her husband Timothy, who shared it on social media.</p>
<p>Mrs McIntosh said: &lsquo;They were told no one was coming because they couldn&rsquo;t reach them. That&rsquo;s when we decided to tweet the photos.&rsquo;</p>
<p>Helicopters were alerted and the 18 inhabitants were rescued.</p>
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