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  <h1>Hurricane Harvey: Girl clings to dead mother&#039;s back in Texas floodwaters</h1>



  
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  <p>A shivering three-year-old girl found clinging to the body of her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal in south-eastern Texas was probably saved by her mum's effort to carry her child to safety from Hurricane Harvey's floods, police say.</p><div class="inline-content wysiwyg right">
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</div><p> </p><p>Beaumont police identified the mother as 41-year-old Colette Sulcer and said her daughter was being treated for hypothermia but doing well.</p><p>When rescuers found the mother and daughter, the girl was on her mother's back, holding on, police officer Haley Morrow said.</p><p>"I envision what I would do if that was me in that situation and that's what I would do. I would put my child on my back and try to swim to safety or whatever."</p><div class="inline-content video full">
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      </a></div><p> </p><p>Ms Sulcer's vehicle got stuck on Tuesday afternoon in the flooded parking lot of an office park just off Interstate 10, Captain Brad Penisson of Beaumont's fire-rescue department said.</p><p>Squalls from Hurricane Harvey were pounding Beaumont with up to 5 centimetres of rain an hour with 60kph wind gusts, according to the National Weather Service.</p><p>A witness saw the woman take her daughter and try to walk to safety when the swift current of a flooded drainage canal next to the parking lot swept them both away, Mr Penisson said.</p><div class="inline-content photo full">
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      </a></div><p> </p><p>Mr Morrow said the woman's actions probably saved her daughter's life.</p><p>"When they found her she was still up out of the water," he said.</p><h2>Pair pulled from water at last moment</h2><p>A police and fire-rescue team in a boat caught up to about a kilometre downstream from Ms Sucler's vehicle, according to Mr Penisson.</p><p>Rescuers pulled them into the boat just before they would have gone under a railroad trestle where the water was so high the boat could not have followed. First responders lifted the child from her mother's body and tried to revive the woman, but she never regained consciousness.</p><div class="inline-content wysiwyg right">
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  <h2><a href="/news/2017-08-30/hurricane-harvey-volunteer-army-takes-to-the-boats/8855846" target="_self" title="">'I couldn't sit at home'</a></h2><a href="/news/2017-08-30/hurricane-harvey-volunteer-army-takes-to-the-boats/8855846" target="_self" title=""><img alt="" class="float--none" src="/cm/lb/8857480/data/hurricane-harvey-volunteer-data.jpg"/> </a> <br/><a href="/news/2017-08-30/hurricane-harvey-volunteer-army-takes-to-the-boats/8855846" target="_self" title="">Locals in Texas have taken to their own boats to go house by house trying to save lives in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.</a></div>
</div><p> </p><p>A passer-by allowed first responders to load the mother and daughter into his truck and he brought them to a waiting ambulance, Mr Morrow said.</p><p>The child was taken to the Christus St Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, and was expected to be released on Wednesday (local time). Officer Carol Riley said the girl was doing "very well" and was chatty.</p><blockquote class="quote--pullquote"><p>"Everybody at the hospital and the officers just fell in love with her," Ms Riley said.</p></blockquote><p>At least 22 people have been killed by the storm since Friday, when it made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 hurricane. Harvey has since weakened to a tropical storm.</p><p><strong>AP</strong></p>


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