When floodwaters surged over the Beaumont, Texas, highway where Collette Sulcer, 41, was driving on Tuesday, she pulled off into a nearby parking lot, but got stuck.
With water rushing around the car, she got out and picked up her three-year-old daughter, Jordyn, to carry her to safety.
But the raging floodwaters swept Sulcer off her feet. She did all she could to keep her daughter’s head above water as they floated away from their car, police say.

Collette Sulcer and her daughter Jordyn. Facebook