'God was with us': Texas woman describes surviving in tree after being swept away by floods

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas woman says she and her family, after being swept away by floodwaters early Saturday morning, managed to survive by climbing a tree.

Melissa Higginbotham lives in Leander, just down the street from the Travis County Emergency Services District 1 station and the Round Mountain Baptist Church. She explained that, around midnight, she noticed there was water in her front yard.

"About 2, my dad came banging on the door, 'We got to go,'" she recounted to Nexstar's KXAN on Sunday.