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3 members of
family die as
mobile home swept
into Ohio creek

A creek that flooded during a torrential downpour in southern

Ohio swept away a mobile home late Saturday, killing three mem-
bers of a family of six huddling for safety inside, authorities said.
A mother and her son and daughter were killed, and the father and
two sons survived, including one found in a tree, said Art Owens,
Georgetown village administrator.
“Basically they were swept downstream,” Owens said Sunday.
The double-wide mobile home was just a few yards from Red Oak
Creek in Ripley, about an hour southeast of Cincinnati. Owens
said rain was falling as heavily as four inches an hour Saturday
night. The downpour also flooded several streets in Georgetown
to a depth of five or six feet.
“We periodically get flash flooding, and get water into homes and
stuff, but nothing of this magnitude,” Owens said.
The father and two surviving sons were rescued about two hours
after the disaster, he said. The body of the family’s daughter — a
girl around 5 years old — was finally found around 9 a.m. Sunday,
Owens said. The survivors were taken to a Cincinnati hospital.
WCPO-TV in Cincinnati reported that one of the boys who survived
told his uncle the family huddled in the bathroom of their mobile
home as the creek began to rise.
The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for
Brown County until 5:15 p.m. Sunday.

Texas man navigates traffic
while filming wife giving birth

VIDEO shows a Houston-area man filming his wife giving birth 15INTERNATIONAL

to their 10-pound baby son next to him as he drives through traffic
in an unsuccessful effort to reach a birthing center in time.
Jonathan and Lesia Pettijohn were stuck in traffic for more than an
hour this week when her water broke, forcing her to self-deliver
their newborn son, Josiah.
Jonathan Pettijohn told KHOU-TV in Houston hat they didn’t pull
over because there was no apparent danger to his wife or the baby.
The roughly four-minute video shows him calmly instructing his
wife while she screams, “It’s coming out! It’s coming out!”
After the birth, he says, “We did it! High-five, babe!”
Birthing center staffers were surprised to find Josiah already in
hand when the couple arrived.

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