Anna Caplan
A mother and her toddler daughter were trying to escape rising floodwaters when their truck stalled out in a parking lot in Beaumont Tuesday afternoon.
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The mother took her child out of the vehicle and they attempted to wade through the water, but were carried away into a drainage canal.
Sadly, authorities found the body of the woman Wednesday, but miraculously: The toddler was clinging to her mother, alive.
#NEW: Mother in Beaumont, #Texas killed in floods. Child saved.
Dramatic and heartbreaking details in release below: pic.twitter.com/KMC8cNInmI— kaitlyn hegarty (@kait_hegarty) August 30, 2017
Showing signs of hypothermia, the child was treated in a local hospital where she is in stable condition.
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Authorities fear fatalities will surge once the waters recede.
