14 DAY TRIAL // Over the weekend, hurricane Joaquin brought heavy rains to the entire US East Coast. South Carolina was one of the states hit the hardest, with flash floods forcing people out of their homes.
Angela Williams, a Columbia resident, was among the people who had to abandon their houses and run to safety. The woman talked about her experience in an interview, and told reporter Sam Bleiweis all about how, when the flood hit, she grabbed her pet dog and a couple of frozen pizzas, and off she went.
Yup, she saved her dog and frozen pizzas
“I didn't grab nothing but two Tortino's Pizza out of the refrigerator and my doggie and we left,” Angela Williams summed up her experience running from the path of the flash floods brought about by hurricane Joaquin.
The interview made it online just hours ago, and has pretty much gone viral. After all, it's not every day that one gets to hear a person talking about running away from hurricane floods holding a dog in one hand and a couple of pizzas in the other.
Scroll down to have a look at it yourselves. If you can get past Angela Williams' account of how she dealt with the storm, the muddy torrents in the background are definitely worth checking out.
Now, running from the path of a hurricane with pizza might come across as a bit absurd at first, but here's something to ponder on: when natural disasters happen, food isn't exactly easy to come by. So maybe Angela Williams really was on to something.
Hurricane Joaquin is now heading for Bermuda
Latest news on hurricane Joaquin says the storm is now on its way to Bermuda. It's weakened to a category 2 hurricane and specialists expect that, over the following 48 hours or so, it will weaken even further.
“Gradual weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and Joaquin is expected to transition to a large extra-tropical low pressure system on Wednesday,” researchers with the US National Hurricane Center write in an update.
At its strongest, hurricane Joaquin packed winds reaching a speed of 130 miles per hour (210 kilometers per hour). Scientists say wind speed now stands at about 85 miles per hour (140 kilometers per hour).
